4. Limitations of plastic packaging
In this section, we will list the properties that show the limitations of plastics for encapsulation. The solutions developed to overcome these "weaknesses" will be described in paragraph .
4.1 Water permeability
The first defect attributed to plastic housings is their permeability to water, or even sealing defects between the resin and metal conductors, whereas hermetic housings totally isolate the semiconductor from the outside environment. The moisture permeability of resins allows water to reach the surface of semiconductors, leading to severe corrosion of the metallized areas on early versions of plastic housings, which caused serious problems in US military equipment subjected to tropical environments in the early 1970s. This setback...
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The breakdown of enclosure families (by volume) is shown in figure (2010 estimate based on data from Electronic Trend Publications).
PDIPs are still present. In percentage terms, traditional pin-type packages (SO, TSOP, QFP) are slowly declining in world production, but remain in the majority. Ball bearing packages (BGA, CSP) and tabless packages (QFN) account for...
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