A Nanocopper Based Alternative to High Temperature Solder
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
ABSTRACT Alternatives to high temperature solder remain limited. The CuantumFuse™ material under development by the Advanced Technology Center at the Lockheed Martin Corporation appears to be the only one to offer the potential for a drop-in replacement of solder as far as SMT assembly equipment and processes are concerned. The Cu nanoparticle paste is printable with the consistency of solder paste and the particles fuse together at 200oC in a conventional full convection reflow oven. The resulting Cu joint is nano-crystalline and nanoporous, lending it some unique properties, and the microstructure is not thermally stable but the joint remains solid up to higher temperatures than envisioned in any microelectronics application. Assessment of the reliability of existing joints, not to mention the optimization and prediction of the reliability of new versions of the material, will require much more than just accelerated testing. Different versions of the nano-Cu material are being characterized in terms of creep rates and mechanisms as well as the behavior in both thermal and isothermal cycling. Microstructures are characterized by FIB polishing, to preserve porosity structures, followed by optical microscopy, SEM, and TEM. Generalization of results requires us, among other, to distinguish between competing effects of the distributions of grain sizes and pores on creep. Experiments were extended to include nano-porous Au samples with much larger grain sizes to help resolve that. In general, counteracting effects of grain sizes and pore distributions on ductility, strength and fatigue resistance may offer opportunities for optimization of nano-particle based joint structures. So far we argue that comparisons of the present nano-Cu material to solder in accelerated thermal or isothermal cycling will tend to be extremely conservative.
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.006 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it