IEICE Transactions on Electronics
Online ISSN : 1745-1353
Print ISSN : 0916-8524
Special Section on Recent Development of Electro-Mechanical Devices — Papers selected from International Session on Electro-Mechanical Devices (IS-EMD2010) and other research results —
Observations of Structural Transition of Tin Plated Fretting Contacts Using FIB-SEM
Tetsuya ITOShigeru OGIHARAYasuhiro HATTORI
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Keywords: fretting, FIB-SEM
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2011 Volume E94.C Issue 9 Pages 1350-1355

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In recent years, there has been increasing demand to miniaturize wiring harness connectors in automobiles due to the increasing volume of electronic equipment and so on. With this demand, contact failure caused by the fretting corrosion seems to become a serious problem in the future. In this report, three-dimensional observations using Focused Ion Beam (FIB)-SEM method have been made for tin plated fretting contacts before and after the contact resistance increase with tin plating thickness 5µm. With these observations, the three dimensional structural transition from tin to tin oxide have been examined.

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