Lucent Technologies Inc.

Brian T Smith

Joseph Anthony Abys

Chonglun Fan

Chen Xu

Bruce F Stacy

Conor Anthony Dullaghan

A printed wiring board (PWB) and a method of manufacturing the same. In one embodiment, the PWB includes: (1) a substrate having a conductive trace located thereon and (2) a multi-purpose finish including palladium alloy where palladium is alloyed with cobalt or a platinum group metal and is located on at least a portion of the conductive trace, which forms both a non-contact finish and a contact finish for the PWB.

Multi-purpose finish for printed wiring boards and method of manufacture of such boards

Method of manufacture of printed wiring boards having multi-purpose finish

An electrical connector comprises connector contacts having a metal base and a surface finish layer over the base, the surface finish layer being a composite of an electroplated precious metal composition and wear resistant particles dispersed therein. In the preferred embodiment, the precious metal layer is a PdCo alloy and the wear resistant particles are sub-micron sized lubricating particles, e.g. polytetrafluoroethylene particles and a flash coat of gold is provided over the composite layer.

Electrodeposited precious metal finishes having wear resistant particles therein

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Brian T Smith