APPLICATIONS OF ALLOYS IN ELECTRONICS AND ELECTROTECHNICS
Electronic devices do make life easier for us: from the light bulb and refrigerator to computers and smart phones. Industrial enterprises are developing tomorrow‘s products today, but every new development or improvement has its own set of demands on the materials used. Whenever you have switched on the light in your home there is a good chance to be in touch with VOJAY materials, because they are used for the lead wires in modern lamp. But the complete list of electronics and electrical products is almost inexhaustible and increases every year.
The most used in electrotechnics alloys and steels are:
Nickel 200 (2.4060, N02200) / Nickel 201 (2.4061, N02201) / Nickel 205 (2.4065, N02205) /Nickel 206 (2.4066, N02206):
- as soldering tag for batteries and accumulators;
- as pole piece for batteries;
- as electrolytic anodes for the electroplating industry;
- bimetal components and thermostatic bimetals;
- as outside caps for transistors;
- leads of electronic components (inner parts of bulbs and electron tube).
Nickel 211 (2.4116, N02211) / Nickel 212 (2.4110, N02212):
- as packing rings in apparatus and plant engineering;
- as electro-acoustic components;
- as parts of electric tubes and bulbs;
- as electrodes of spark plugs.
Ni-Cu alloys Alloy 400 (2.4360, N04400), Alloy 405 (2.4363, N04405), Alloy 500 (2.4375, N05500):
- for electronic parts (lamp industry extensively as a fuse wire in lead-in-wires).
Nichrom and fechral (wherever electric current is converted into heat):
- industrial furnaces;
- electric cooking equipment (toasters, electric furnace, etc);
- precision, high-resistance and potentiometer resistors;
- in ceramic hobs and in tubular heaters;
- electrically heated equipment (hot plates, irons, etc.).
Cu-Ni alloys:
In copper-nickel alloys the resistance is lower and the temperature coefficient of resistance is lower. These alloys are used as:
- common resistance wires;
- core in low temperature heaters;
- resistance elements in switches and fuses of heaters;
- heating elements of resistance (conductors in thermal relays, resistors);
- precision resistors, potentiometers, industrial rheostats;
- volume control devices;
- electric resistors in the engine.
Stainless steel:
Stainless steel is found in mobile phones, digital cameras, televisions, headphones, antennas, as well as in conveyor belts, antistatic brushes and conductors, which makes the world of communication possible.
Stainless steels are selected for electronics and communications applications based on corrosion resistance, strength, wear resistance, electrical resistivity or thermal expansion, and are frequently used for durable, high-style product enclosures.
Thermocouple alloys:
Are used to manufacture thermocouples, extension and compensating wires/cables.
Material selection for applications in electronics and electrotechnics is determined by the parameters of a separate application and requires special knowledge in the corresponding field.
Please contact our technical engineer for any help you may need in your specific application field.