Nickel-based electrodeposits for corrosion protection of smart card contacts

• Main Author: Vinod Kumar Murugan
• Other Authors: Chen Zhong
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Materials
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/69534
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Reliability of smart cards depends extensively on the corrosion resistance of the electrical contacts they contain as these contacts are primarily exposed to the environment. Although corrosion as an entirety is a century old problem, the corrosion of thin electrical contacts has been rarely studie...