Presentation 2016-10-21
Degradation of gold plated contacts under high temperature and effectiveness of contact lubricant
Terutaka Tamai, Masahiro Yamakawa, Yuta Nakamura, Ichiro Takano,
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Abstract(in English) Contact failures for down size of connector contacts with low contact force and cost down of gold plated are serious problem to be solved. One solution is application of lubricants. Particularly these contacts are exposed to elevated temperature under reflow treatment in assembling processes. It is an important subject should be clarified that the deterioration of increases in contact resistance properties under the reflow. One cause of this deterioration is a surface contamination due to oxidation of diffused small amount of additives through gold plated layer. The other should be decomposition of the coated lubricants. In this study, degradation of contact resistance properties were measured, and change of images of STM for exposure time for high temperature were observed. The clean gold plated surface and heated clean surface were examined by using XPS and AES analysis. As results, contact resistance properties of clean surface were found to degrade under elevated temperature. This degradation was found due to oxidation of base metal nickel and cobalt additive to gold plated surface. However, influence of the contact lubrication on the degradation of contact resistance was not recognized. The change of composition of the lubricant was discussed by using STM images. Growth of oxide film on the clean surface was found as cubic law.
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Keyword(in English) contact lubricants / gold plate / olefin / connector / 電気接触部 / リフロー
Paper # EMD2016-49
Date of Issue 2016-10-14 (EMD)

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Committee EMD
Conference Date 2016/10/21(1days)
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Chair Yoshiteru Abe(NTT)
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Secretary (Sumitomo Denso)
Assistant Yoshiki Kayano(Univ. of Electro-Comm.) / Yuichi Hayashi(Tohoku Gakuin Univ.)

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Language ENG-JTITLE
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Title (in English) Degradation of gold plated contacts under high temperature and effectiveness of contact lubricant
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Keyword(1) contact lubricants
Keyword(2) gold plate
Keyword(3) olefin
Keyword(4) connector
Keyword(5) 電気接触部
Keyword(6) リフロー
1st Author's Name Terutaka Tamai
1st Author's Affiliation Elcontech Consulting Inc.(Elcontech)
2nd Author's Name Masahiro Yamakawa
2nd Author's Affiliation Tetra Co. Ltd.(Tetra)
3rd Author's Name Yuta Nakamura
3rd Author's Affiliation Tetra Co. Ltd.(Tetra)
4th Author's Name Ichiro Takano
4th Author's Affiliation Kogakuin University(Kokgakuin)
Date 2016-10-21
Paper # EMD2016-49
Volume (vol) vol.116
Number (no) EMD-261
Page pp.pp.19-27(EMD),
#Pages 9
Date of Issue 2016-10-14 (EMD)