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0 pointshulitu4y ago0 comments

Yes they do but slower. In the past gold was used for wires from terminal to pads. Gold as far as i know is not so subceptible to form whiskers. But gold is expensive and now they use copper instead of gold.

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askvictor4y ago

Unfortunately, gold is also susceptible: https://nepp.nasa.gov/whisker/other_whisker/gold/index.htm

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0 pointshulitu4y ago0 comments

Yes they do but slower. In the past gold was used for wires from terminal to pads. Gold as far as i know is not so subceptible to form whiskers. But gold is expensive and now they use copper instead of gold.

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askvictor4y ago

Unfortunately, gold is also susceptible: https://nepp.nasa.gov/whisker/other_whisker/gold/index.htm

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