Cleaning and Contamination of Electronics Components and Assemblies - Hardcover

Ellis, B.N.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0901150207 ISBN 13: 9780901150202

Publisher: Electrochemical Publications Ltd, 1986

Synopsis

This book is a practical guide for all persons who are in any way concerned with cleaning or contamination control of either components or assembled circuits. It is also useful to those specifying components and, in particular, printed circuits. It equally covers the theoretical side to a sufficient extent to allow the average engineer or technician who is not a specialist in the field to understand the mechanisms involved in contamination and cleaning.

As a reference book, the text is divided into seven parts, logically divided into some thirty chapters illustrated by photographs, line drawings, graphs and tables. Each chapter has its own reference list. The introductory section comprises an historical background to cleaning in the electronics industry, a very complete chapter of definitions of all the terms employed and in the particular context, a short chapter on units employed, a theoretical treatise on the mechanics, physics and chemistry of cleaning (in simple terms) and one on the cost of cleaning.

The second part comprises come seven chapters cataloguing the diverse ways that contamination can occur in the electronics industry, whereas the third part describes, over three chapters, what effects contamination can have during the various manufacturing processes of components and assemblies and over the whole of their subsequent lives. Part 4 will be considered as being the most important by some production engineers because its four chapters describe all the currently used methods of cleaning and flux removal for the small, medium or large user with considerable detail on the products usually employed.

The fifth section deals with ionic contamination control. The first two chapters discuss respectively the American military specifications and the new British DEF standards. The third one gives a general view of the different instruments commercially available for measuring or detecting ionic contamination. The last chapter of this section gives an insight into some aspects of the theory of ionic contamination measurement and the solutions used for it. The next part treats the detection and measurement of contamination by other methods, with particular emphasis on non-ionic contaminants. Insulation resistance measurement is discussed in a separate chapter of this section. The last part, divided into three chapters, relates to the particular problems imposed by the use of surface mounted components and solder creams and pastes.

It is felt that this book will become a valuable reference work for the bookshelves of all companies involved in any aspect of electronics, particularly component, printed or hybrid circuit manufacturers or assemblers.

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Review

The publishers are to be complemented in adding to their range of reference books for our industry
Circuit World (UK) --Circuit World, 1986

A book well worth having on the reference bookshelf
--Circuit World, 1986

From the Publisher

The original publisher, Electrochemical Publications Ltd, has reverted all rights to me, as the author. I am now marketing it with a newly published CD-ROM with updates.

About this edition

• Publisher: Electrochemical Publications Ltd
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0901150207
• ISBN 13: 9780901150202
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 365