抄録
An experimental study was made to determine the effect of firing conditions and geometry on sheet resistance, TCR and current noise of palladium-silver thick film resistors. The effects of firing temperature, firing time, gas flow rate in firing furnace, temperature rise-fall rate of firing process, thickness of films fired and pattern size of resistors on the above electrical characte-ristics of resistance were investigated by using the experimental resistor paste specifically fabricated with the practical utility of the resistance performance taken into consideration. It has been found that the electrical characteristics of the resistors are significantly affected by firing temperature and time profiles in relation to the gas flow rates, and that a high performance in resistor characteristics can only be achieved by firing the paste with optimum conditions determined by each material separabely.
