In this paper the preliminary results of a study to characterize the conductive filament formation (often called metal migration) of woven fabric printed wiring boards with respect to resin material, board surface coating, applied bias, geometry of the electrodes and spacing between the electrodes are presented. The experiments were accelerated life tests at controlled temperature-humidity-voltage conditions.

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