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RELIABILITY OF PCB ALTERNATE SURFACE FINISHES IN A HARSH INDUSTRIAL ENVIRONMENT Robert Veale Rockwell Automation Mayfield Hts. Ohio rkveale@ PCB ABSTRACT The RoHS initiative requires that PCBs use an alternate finish coating to replace the tin/lead HASL coating. The four candidates are immersion gold, immersion silver, immersion tin and an organic solderability preservative (OSP). While there has been much published regarding solderability and other general issues, the area of corrosion has not been adequately addressed. Industrial environments can and do produce corrosion of exposed metal surfaces and these corrosion products can lead to electrical failure. The type of corrosion in the industrial environment is typically sulfur-driven corrosion and is found in steel, paper and tire manufacturing as well as other industrial processes. In this study, four alternate PCB finishes were subjected to an accelerated mixed flowing gas corrosion test and the results analyzed. The important findings of this study can be summarized as follows: RoHSPCB/ OSP PCB 1) The immersion gold (ENIG) and immersion silver surface finishes failed early in the testing. These coatings are the most susceptible to corrosion failures and are expected to be much more susceptible than the traditional Sn/Pb HASL coatings. The use of these two coatings may make