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Metallisation creep ?
I have hundreds of Germanium OC71's , now useless although perfectly
alright when bought perhaps 20 years ago, stored indoors in normal human comfortable conditions. Looking under a microscope and probing it would appear the C-E shorts are due to metalisation creeping over the die. Over the years I've found a few times that those, usually 3 lead, ceramic resonators can fail by going resistive over the edge of the thin element as though the metalisation has crept around the edge. Is this a recognized failure mode and anyone know the proper term or where I could research it ? Whether silver or Al or both have this effect ? -- Diverse Devices, Southampton, England electronic hints and repair briefs , schematics/manuals list on http://home.graffiti.net/diverse:graffiti.net/ |
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