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- Residual Molding Compound After Decapsulation
 - ENIG Gold Thickness
 - Resistor Corrosion Failures
 - CAF related failures
 - Relay Failures
 - Weibull analysis
 - Solder Joint Intermetallic Compounds
 - Thermal Fatigue of Solder Joints
 - SLI_Insight
 - drilled hole quality
 - PWB Internal Short – Example C
 - PWB Internal Short – Example B
 - PWB Internal Short – Example A
 - PWB Failures
 - The EDS spectrum is the first step.
 - MLCC Flux Entrapment
 - Solder Joint Failures
 - PCBA bending
 - Failure Analysis vs Testing
 - Electronic Connectors
 - LED Failures
 - Vias in Printed Circuit Boards
 - Flux Cleaning is Essential
 - Premature Failure of WLEDs
 - ENIG Analysis
 - Diode bridge
 - BGA Solder Joint Simulation
 - QFN Failures
 - PWB Quality Problems
 - Al Bond Pad with Ti-W Barrier
 - Thin Film Thickness Measurements
 - EOS fused bond wire
 - EOS Damaged Op Amp
 - BGA Assembly Verification
 - Contamination on MLCC Termination
 - MLCC Knit Line Related Failures
 - CMOS Flip-Flop IC
 - Failure Analysis of PWBs
 - Corrosion Failures
 - Solder Joint Failure Modes
 - Glass Rectifier Diode
 - BGA Pad Cratering
 - BGA Solder Joint Microsection
 - BGA Solder Joint Height
 - Microsections
 - MLCC knit line failure
 - Head-in-pillow defect
 - IR LED Open Circuit
 - Dual Op Amp
 - MELF Resistor
 - SMT Transformer
 - LED Bond Wire Break
 - Chip Components
 - Microcontroller failure
 - QFN Solder Joint Evaluation
 - Connector Contamination
 - Thermal Stress or EOS
 - PWB Short
 - Creep Rupture Failure
 - Mechanical Overstress of Resistor Solder Joints
 - BGA warpage
 - VD on PCB
 - Pb-dendrites
 - Corrosion of Flex Assembly
 - Optical vs SEM imaging
 - FTIR of Unknown Plastic
 - Counterfeit AE Capacitors
 - Nichrome Resistors
 - Yellowed resistors
 - ENIG Discoloration
 - Laminate Damage
 - Wear Out of Aluminum Electrolytic Capacitor
 - Suspected tin whisker
 - Solder Joint Fatigue
 - Failure of IR LED
 - Residue on PCBA
 - MLCC Bending Fracture
 - FPGA ECM short
 - Tin Whiskers
 - LED Lamp Flickers
 - Gold Embrittlement
 - MLCC manufacturing flaw
 - Diode Short
 - ESD Damage in Zener Diode
 - Severe corrosion on PCBA
 - PCBA Corrosion
 - Shorted FET
 - Dendritic Growth – Shorts on PCBA
 - ECM of PWB Battery Contacts
 - Bad Board Design
 - Solder Joint Failure
 - Tombstoning of SMD Inductor
 - Silver Sulfide Crystals
 - IC Bond Pad Corrosion
 - Crystal Frequency Shift
 - Damage in BGA Device
 - Manufacturing flaws in ceramic capacitor
 - Red Phosphorus in IC Molding Compound
 - ENIG corrosion problem
 - FET failure
 - Diode failure
 - Ta-cap breakdown
 - MLCC bending fracture
 - Internal PWB Short
 - Microsection of gold-plated contact
 - Trace fractured on Rigid Flex
 - EOS failure of Power MOSFET
 - Black Pad Syndrome
 - Power Transistor
 - Blue LED
 - Tin Whiskers
 - Bad diodes
 - EDS shows Teflon Contamination
 - Tin whisker
 - Residue under BGA
 - Fuses on Video RAM
 - Solid-State Relay
 - Knit Line Fracture and Porosity
 - ESD damaged diode
 - Silver Sulfide Growth
 - MLCC short
 - Fused bond wire
 - Skip plating
 - Resin Starvation
 - Quad NOR ICs
 - LED Failure
 - Electromigration short
 - Stranded wire failure
 - Corroded PTH-via
 - Tin-lead whisker
 - SAC solder joint
 - SMD diode short
 - Excess solder gull-lead joint
 - Decapsulated diode
 - BGA die crack
 - EOS on GaAlP LED
 - BGA warpage
 - EOS Dual Op Amp
 - Double-Dumet diode
 - Corroded inductor windings
 - EOS damage on VDD
 - EOS fused bond wire
 - Marking on transistor die
 - Welded relay contact
 - Inner Layer Separation
 - Bond cratering microsection
 - MLCC dielectric porosity
 - Diode EOS
 - MLCC flaws
 - Parylene coating
 - Diode EOS
 - BGA gas voids
 - Distorted BGA
 - PLCC bond fail
 - Conductive residue
 - PTH barrel crack
 - Missing BGA ball
 - LED die fracture
 - Fractured solder joint
 - Electromigration short
 - MLCC firing cracks
 - Ta-cap failure
 - Over crimped
 - Suspect wedge bond
 - BGA ball fail
 - Bad HASL
 - LED bond failure
 - LED failure
 - Resistor network solder joint fracture
 - PTH via barrel crack
 - EOS failure
 - ENIG problem
 - Black pad syndrome
 - Poorly drilled hole
 - IC voltage transient
 - Wire bond
 - Bond cratering
 - Chip resistor fracture
 - Via corrosion
 - MLCC knit line failure
 - SOT23 diode
 - Chip resistor corrosion
 - BGA Solder Mask Defined Pads
 - PTH Pad Lift
 - LED microsection
 - MLCC flex fracture
 
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