MétaCan
Menu
Back to cohort
Record W7128478419 · doi:10.37665/smhejgq13230

Reflow Cycle via Reliability Impact

2025· article· W7128478419 on OpenAlex
Jason Furlong, Joe Smetana, Tony Senese, Mei-Ming Khaw, Crystal E. Vanderpan

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.

Bibliographic record

VenueSMTA International · 2025
Typearticle
Language
FieldEngineering
TopicElectronic Packaging and Soldering Technologies
Canadian institutionsIntertek (Canada)
Fundersnot available
KeywordsReliability (semiconductor)Dwell timePrinted circuit boardInterconnectionStress (linguistics)Circuit reliabilityWork (physics)Stress testing (software)

Abstract

fetched live from OpenAlex

ABSTRACT This paper investigates the impact of reflow cycle parameters on via reliability in printed circuit boards (PCBs). The primary objective was to determine how variations in ramp rate, peak temperature, dwell time, and soak time influence the integrity and reliability of plated through hole (PTH) vias. Using a 20-layer commonly used high Tg FR4 test board with 10 mil through holes, a series of typical assembly reflow profiles based on SAC 305 solder were tested using Interconnect Stress Testing (IST)[8]. Key findings indicate that peak temperature and time near peak temperature are the most significant factors affecting via reliability. The paper also highlights the importance of interactions between variables, particularly the three-way interaction of peak temperature, time near peak, and soak time. The results demonstrate that while ramp rate alone is not statistically significant, its interactions with other variables are crucial. All work was conducted through the HDP User Group International Consortium under the project titled Reflow Cycle Via Reliability Impact, facilitated by Jack Tan. All raw data and full versions of the project documents are available to member companies ( www.hdpusergroup.org ).

Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.

Full frame distilled prediction

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: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.400
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 science0.0010.000
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 head0.005
GPT teacher head0.280
Teacher spread0.275 · 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