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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 20, 2025
Filed:
May. 04, 2022
Heraeus Materials Singapore Pte. Ltd., Singapore, SG;
Heraeus Materials Singapore Pte. Ltd., Singapore, SG;
Abstract
A round wire comprising a wire core with a surface, the wire core having a coating layer superimposed on its surface, wherein the wire core itself is a silver-based wire core, wherein the coating layer is a double-layer comprised of a 1 to 100 nm thick inner layer of palladium or nickel and an adjacent 1 to 250 nm thick outer layer of gold, wherein the outer layer of gold exhibits at least one of the following intrinsic properties Al) and A2): A1) the average grain size of the crystal grains in the outer layer of gold, measured in longitudinal direction, is in the range of from-0.1 to 0.8 μm; A2) 60 to 100% of the crystal grains in the outer layer of gold are oriented in <100>direction, and 0 to 20% of the crystal grains in the outer layer of gold are oriented in <111>direction.