Effect of High Temperature during Electroless Nickel Process

Abstract:

This paper presents the correlation between electroless process time, immersion gold process time and the bump height in electroless nickel immersion gold (ENIG). A certain bump height need to be achieved in order to create acceptable solder bumps for reflow process. The study was done using a full factorial design of experiment (DOE). The DOE matrix is made of two levels with two factors. Analysis was done by plotting the main effects plot for each factor. The results suggest that higher process time increases the plating rate where the temperature fixed at 100 °C. It can be concluded that electroless nickel time has more influence to the bump height compared to immersion gold time.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 925)
• Pages: 88-91
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.925.88
• Online since: April 2014
• Authors: Zaliman Sauli*, Vithyacharan Retnasamy, Uda Hashim, Rajendaran Vairavan, Aaron Koay Terr Yeow, Moganraj Palianysamy, Ramzan Mat Ayub
• Keywords: Bump Height, Controllable Parameters, Design of Experiment (DOE), ENIG

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