Don’t Let Tin Whiskers Destroy Your Design (.PDF Download)

Oct. 17, 2013

“Tin whiskers” is not an imaginative, fanciful term for some obscure aspect of electronics manufacturing. Tin whiskers are real, microscopic conductive fibers emanating from pure tin surfaces, and they pose a serious problem to electronics of all types. Almost invisible to the human eye and...

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