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Consortium for Climatically Reliable Electronics
CreCon is an industrial consortium under CELCORR aiming at providing continuous support to industries on climatic reliability issues. Prospective consortium memebers are companies who wish to get support in on reliability issues of their products at various levels. CELCORR group through CreCon consortium provides reliability support to a number of industries through research, product support, testing, advice, net-working, unique laboratory facilities, skills development, education, and a member only datat base website providing information on all aspects of climatic reliability. Participation of companies in the consortium is through an yearly modest membership fee, while the return on the investment is many times higher than the membership fee.
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High performance gold free electrical contacts for hearing aids
Present day low power electrical contacts systems are based on the heavy use of costly gold coatings. The multi-layered contact systems are typically made on a substrate with a layer of Nickel followed by a layer of Gold with thickness depending on the application and exposure conditions. Main issues with the reliability of electrical contacts are the corrosion and wear, which limits the freedom to reduce the gold layer thickness. The goal of the HIPEC project is to develop electrical contact systems without the use of gold, while providing good corrosion and tribological performance.
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