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JOURNAL OF ALLOYS AND COMPOUNDS
Volume 706, Issue -, Pages 596-608Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2017.02.243
Keywords
Intermetallics; EBSD; Orientation relationship; Pb-free soldering; Under-bump metallization
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- China Scholarship Council (CSC) through the Imperial-CSC scholarship scheme [201306250005]
- Nihon Superior Co., Ltd
- EPSRC [EP/M002241/1]
- EPSRC [EP/N007638/1, EP/M002241/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/M002241/1, EP/N007638/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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The potential of cobalt substrates to control the microstructure of 550 mu m Sn-3Ag-0.5Cu ball grid array (BGA) joints is explored. It is shown that cobalt substrates give a small and reproducible nucleation undercooling for tin and prevent the formation of large primary Ag3Sn blades and Cu6Sn5 rods. beta Sn dendrites grew from the CoSn3 reaction layer and the beta Sn grains are shown to inherit their orientation from the CoSn3 layer due to heterogeneous nucleation with the following orientation relationship: (100)(Sn)parallel to(100)(CoSn3) with [001](Sn)parallel to[001](CoSn3). Changes in the dendrite and eutectic microstructure are shown to be caused by the reduced nucleation undercooling for bSn and the altered solidification path due to cobalt substrate dissolution. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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