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RTW SMTAI: LiloTree's Shah Discusses Hyper Corrosion, Black Pad in ENIG
November 13, 2018 | Real Time with...SMTAIEstimated reading time: Less than a minute
At the recent SMTA International 2018 event, Dr. Kunal Shah, chief scientist and president of LiloTree, talks with I-Connect007 Managing Editor Nolan Johnson, and Technical Editor Happy Holden about the major issues in ENIG, such as hyper corrosion—which can be very benign, or very extreme, resulting to black pad—and how LiloTree is helping to improve the performance and efficiency of the ENIG finish processes.
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