• DocumentCode
    235544
  • Title

    Effect of Ag and Cu content in Sn based Pb-free solder on electromigration

  • Author

    Minhua Lu ; Goldsmith, Charles ; Wassick, Thomas ; Perfecto, Eric ; Arvin, Charles

  • Author_Institution
    IBM T. J. Watson Res. Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    27-30 May 2014
  • Firstpage
    1940
  • Lastpage
    1943
  • Abstract
    The effect of Ag and Cu concentrations on the electromigration of Pb-free solder was investigated. A nine cell experiment with Ag concentrations ranging from 1.2% to 2.2% and Cu concentrations ranging from 0.2 to 2.7% was conducted. Although the EM performance was found to be insensitive to the Ag and Cu concentrations in the range of the study, solder with 1.7% Cu showed the least Ag content dependence. EM failures occurred primarily on the substrate side. An effect of Sn grain texture with Ag and Cu concentrations was also observed.
  • Keywords
    copper alloys; electromigration; silver alloys; solders; tin alloys; Ag; Cu; Sn; electromigration; grain texture; solder; substrate side; Electromigration; Nickel; Reliability; Scanning electron microscopy; Substrates; Tin;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Electronic Components and Technology Conference (ECTC), 2014 IEEE 64th
  • Conference_Location
    Orlando, FL
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ECTC.2014.6897567
  • Filename
    6897567