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ProfessorChristopherGourlay

Faculty of Engineering, Department of Materials

Professor of Physical Metallurgy
 
 
 
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+44 (0)20 7594 8707c.gourlay

 
 
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Location

 

301DBessemer BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Ma:2017:10.1038/s41467-017-01727-6,
author = {Ma, ZL and Belyakov, SA and Sweatman, K and Nishimura, T and Nishimura, T and Gourlay, C},
doi = {10.1038/s41467-017-01727-6},
journal = {Nature Communications},
title = {Harnessing heterogeneous nucleation to control tin orientations in electronic interconnections},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01727-6},
volume = {8},
year = {2017}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - While many aspects of electronics manufacturing are controlled with great precision, the nucleation of tin in solder joints is currently left to chance.  This leads to a widely varying melt undercooling and different crystal orientations in each joint which results in a different resistance to electromigration, thermomechanical fatigue and other failure modes in each joint.  Here we identify a family of nucleants for tin, prove their effectiveness using a novel droplet solidification technique, and demonstrate an approach to incorporate the nucleants into solder joints to control the orientation of the tin nucleation event. With this approach, it is possible to change tin nucleation from a stochastic to a deterministic process, and to generate single crystal joints with their c-axis orientation tailored to best combat a selected failure mode.
AU  - Ma,ZL
AU  - Belyakov,SA
AU  - Sweatman,K
AU  - Nishimura,T
AU  - Nishimura,T
AU  - Gourlay,C
DO  - 10.1038/s41467-017-01727-6
PY  - 2017///
SN  - 2041-1723
TI  - Harnessing heterogeneous nucleation to control tin orientations in electronic interconnections
T2  - Nature Communications
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01727-6
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/52423
VL  - 8
ER  -
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