Use of Carbon nanotubes in potential electronics packaging applications

Liu, Johan; Wang, Teng; Fu, Ying; Ye, Lilei

doi:10.1109/nano.2010.5698052

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“…Carbon nanotubes have been investigated for applications in electronics packaging (Morris, 2008; Liu and Wang, 2010), especially as a reinforcing material, e.g. in soldering alloys.…”

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SAC solder paste with carbon nanotubes. Part II: carbon nanotubes’ effect on solder joints’ mechanical properties and microstructure

Bukat

Sitek

Kościelski

et al. 2013

Soldering &Amp; Surface Mount Technology

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PurposeThe purpose of this work is to investigate the influence of carbon nanotube additions to solder paste on the solder joints mechanical strength and their microstructure. In our investigation, the basic solder paste contains 85 wt.% of the commercial Sn96.5Ag3Cu0.5 powder (with the particle sizes in the range of 20‐38 μm) and 15 wt.% of the self‐prepared middle activated rosin flux. To this paste we added the 0.01, 0.05 and 0.1 wt.% of the self‐modified CNT by functionalized them by mineral acid and than esterificated by methanol (FCNTMet) or polyethylene glycol 400 (FCNTPG). After the pastes had stabilized, the reflow soldering process of “zero ohm” chip resistors on PCBs with Ni/Au and SAC (HASL) finishes was carried out and then shear strength of the solder joints was measured. The correlations between the mechanical strength of solder joins without and with the carbon nanotubes and their microstructure were analysed.Design/methodology/approachFor shear strength measurement of solder joints, the printed circuit boards with Ni/Au and SAC (HASL) finishes was applied. The SAC solder paste with different carbon nanotubes and the basic SAC solder paste as reference were used for this experiment. The automatic SMT line was applied for the paste screen printing; “zero ohms” chip resistors: 0201, 0402, 0603 and 0805 were placing on PWBs and then reflowing according to appropriate time – temperature profile. The shear strength of the solder joints was measured. For the solder joints microstructure analysis, the standard metallographic procedures were applied. Changes in the microstructure, the thickness of the intermetallic compounds and their chemical compositions were observed by means of the SEM equipped with EDS.FindingsAs the authors expected, the SAC solder paste with the carbon nanotubes addition improve the solder joints shear strength of the chip resistors mounted on PCBs with Ni/Au and SAC (HASL) finishes. The carbon nanotubes addition positive effects on IMCs thickness because of blocking their excessive growth.Research limitations/implicationsIt is suggested that further studies are necessary for the confirmation of the practical application, especially of the reliability properties of the solder joints obtained using solder paste with chosen carbon nanotubes.Practical implicationsTaking into account the shear strength data, the best results of the “nano” SAC solder pastes were obtained for the lowest addition of the carbon nanotubes modified by esterification process, especially by the methanol compared to the polyethylene glycol 400.Originality/valueThe obtained results made it possible to draw conclusions regarding the correlation between the output of the mechanical results and the amount of the added carbon nanotubes, and also the microstructure and thickness of the IMCs of the “nano” solder joints. It can be useful from practical point of view.

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“…Carbon nanotubes have been investigated for applications in electronics packaging (Morris, 2008; Liu and Wang, 2010), especially as a reinforcing material, e.g. in soldering alloys.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

SAC solder paste with carbon nanotubes. Part II: carbon nanotubes’ effect on solder joints’ mechanical properties and microstructure

Bukat

Sitek

Kościelski

et al. 2013

Soldering &Amp; Surface Mount Technology

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Nanopackaging: Nanotechnologies and Electronics Packaging

Morris

2018

Nanopackaging

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