The production of connector pin wire via a cladding process provides the connector design for a great degree of flexibility. The precious metal used, the barrier layer, and the substrate are not restricted to only those metals which are suitable for electroplating.
The use of a wide range of precious metal alloys, designed for specific applications becomes possible. Difficult to plate metals such as palladium and nickel are available without fear of hydrogen cracking. Precious metal clad products are custom engineered, metallurgically bonded products that can be fabricated to meet specific application requirements for high corrosion- and thermal resistance at a considerably lower cost.
They also can be fabricated in a variety of configurations to meet demanding applications at approx. one-tenth the cost of solid products. Typical clad products include platinum clad molybdenum that is corrosion-resistant at temperatures of up to 1,250 °C, platinum clad tantalum for biocompatibility, and gold clad copper for high reliability.
Featuring a smooth, consistent surface finish, precious metal clad products can be supplied as wire and rod from 0.05 mm to 10 mm O.D. and as ribbon up to 25 mm wide. Precious metals can include platinum, palladium, gold or silver, and related alloys on core substrates such as stainless steel, molybdenum, titanium, tantalum, niobium, copper, and nickel-iron.
These metal clad products are priced according to configuration and quantity. Literature, samples, and quotations are provided on costumers´ request.
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