Cost Effective Alternatives to Gold Electrical Contacts for Connectors





Cost Effective Alternatives to Gold Electrical Contacts for Connectors

Sep 14, 2011
Approximately one hour
Dr. David Williams, Consultant, Vice President, Process Engineering (retired), Materion Technical Materials

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As price continues to increase to unprecedented levels renewed interest is being focused on alternatives to gold for connector contacts.

Materion Technical Materials has been supplying contact materials for high reliability connector applications in the Automotive, Telecom, Computer industries for over 30 years. They supply customers in Asia and Europe as well as being the dominant supplier of such products within the United States.


This Webcast will present lower cost alternative metal combinations for electrical contacts that do not sacrifice performance or reliability.






Dr. David Williams
Consultant, Vice President, Process Engineering (retired)
Materion Technical Materials


 





Materion Technical Materials :

Materion Technical Materials is a global supplier of high-performance composite metals.  Cladding and electroplating capabilities are used to create unique multi-layer systems for electrical, thermal, and mechanical performance.  Their latest generation of connector materials minimizes gold usage through diffused metallurgical layers.  These connectors exhibit outstanding high temperature and vibration properties while reducing intrinsic metal costs.  Materion Technical Materials brings 40 years of automotive, telecom, and consumer electronics expertise to creating custom-designed solutions.  



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