Terpenes

(Turpentine)A solvent used in cleaning electrical assemblies.

Terpenes

Termination

 The part of component that makes contact with a pad on a substrate.

Termination

Terminal Area

A portion of a conductive pattern usually, but not exclusively, used for the connection and/or attachment of components.

Terminal Area

Tenting

A printed board fabrication method of covering over plated through-holes and the surrounding conductive pattern with a resist, usually dry film.

Tenting

Tented Via

A via with solder mask completely covering both its pad and its plated through-hole. This completely insulates the via from foreign objects, thus protecting against accidental shorts, but it also rend...

Tented Via

Temperature Profile

 The depiction of the temperature that a selected point traverses as it passes through the re-flow process.

Temperature Profile

Teflon

Du Pont trade name as an inventor for PTFE(Polytetrafluoroethylene).

Teflon

Taped Components

Components attached to continuous tape for automatic assembly.

Taped Components

Tape-and-reel

A packaging method of housing surface-mount parts in  their own tape cavities in a long continuous strip. The cavities are covered so that the tape can be wound around a reel for convenient handl...

Tape-and-reel

Swaged Lead

A component lead wire that extends through a hole in a printed board and its lead extension is flattened(swaged)to secure the component to the board during  manufacturing operations.

Swaged Lead

Surfactant

A chemical added to the cleaning solution to lower surface tension and to promote wetting.

Surfactant

Surface Tension

The natural, inward, molecular attraction force that inhibits the spread of a liquid at its interface with a solid material.

Surface Tension

Surface Mounting

The electrical connection of components to the surface of a conductive pattern that does not  utilize component holes.

Surface Mounting

Surface Leakage

The passage of current over the boundary surface of an insulator as distinguished from passage through its volume.

Surface Leakage

Surface Insulation Resistance(SIR)

A measure in ohms of an insulating material’s (as in FR-4) electrical resistance between conductors.

Surface Insulation Resistance(SIR)

Surface Insulation Resistance(SIR)Test

Test for the level of resistance of an insulating material, such as FR-4.between conducting members of a board (traces, contacts).

Surface Insulation Resistance(SIR)Test

Supported Hole

A hole in a printed board that has its inside surface plated or otherwise reinforced.

Supported Hole

Subtractive Process

A process for obtaining conductive patterns by selective removal of unwanted areas of conductive foil from a metal clad base material.

Subtractive Process

Substrate

See Base Material.

Substrate

Stripline

A type of transmission line configuration which consists of a single narrow conductor parallel and equidistant to two parallel ground planes.

Stripline

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