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Solder mask as a reliable insulation layer on printed circuit boards–different layouts and materials under humidity and high voltage

2025· article· en· W4409652475 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueMicroelectronics Reliability · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicElectronic Packaging and Soldering Technologies
Canadian institutionsKellogg's (Canada)
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPrinted circuit boardMaterials scienceLayer (electronics)SolderingComposite materialVoltageHumidityOptoelectronicsElectrical engineeringEngineering

Abstract

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After decades of improvement, the reliability of Printed Circuit Boards (PCB) is well known and standardized. However, the standards are based on outdated material properties and old experiments and thus, they contain a large safety margin, when modern insulation materials are applied. This work focuses on the insulation properties and the reliability of solder mask under high humidity and high voltages. It has been demonstrated that significantly more robust systems can be achieved than the standards specify. This leads the way for further volume reductions. • PCB reliability is well-known and standardized after decades of improvement. • Current standards are outdated, based on old material properties and experiments. • Results show that more robust systems are achievable than specified by current standards. • This opens possibilities for further volume reductions in PCB design.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.101
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.009
GPT teacher head0.224
Teacher spread0.215 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it