- Many companies are haunted with worry about tin whiskers.
- Tin whiskers arise from stresses in the plating.
- Tin whiskers don't have to be airborne to damage equipment.
- To address the threat of tin whiskers, a review of mitigation strategies is presented.
- Tin whiskers have been identified or are highly suspected in the costly failure in a number of electronic systems.
- CALCE Consortium has posted an alert, warning manufacturers of electronic hardware that tin whiskers represent a current failure risk, that must be addressed [TIN WHISKER ALERT, 2002]
- In high-voltage, high-current circuits, any shorts caused by tin whiskers are quickly burnt out.
- The phenomenon of tin whiskers is something you've likely heard discussed, maybe in scared whispered tones.
- One group of theorists has estimated that tin whiskers have caused losses of billions of dollars to date.
- This two day symposium will bring together international experts, in the field of tin whiskers.
- In a perverse kind of way, tin whiskers are good for the consumer market.
I think the first thing you should do when you get home is just do a quick room-to-room check for any of those tin whiskers. I'll do the same. Then I'll call you. OK?
