Internal PWB Short

This is a BSE SEM image of a parallel microsection showing an electrical breakdown site on an inner laminate layer of the PWB. The short developed due to copper electromigration through damaged areas of laminate from a previous operation where excessively warped boards were laminated to heat sinks.

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