Andy C. Mackie, PhD, MSc
Senior Product Manager,
Semiconductor Assembly Materials
Indium Corporation
Phone: +1 315 853 4900 x7549
E-mail: amackie@indium.com
Address: 34 Robinson Rd., Clinton, NY USA 13323
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Biography
Andy C. Mackie is the Senior Product Manager for Indium Corporation’s Semiconductor Materials product lines.
Andy’s product lines include:
- Wafer bumping (bump fusion) fluxes
- Flip-chip fluxes
- 2.5D and 3D interconnect fluxes
- Polymeric semiconductor assembly materials
- Ball-attach fluxes
- Low and ultralow alpha (LA, ULA) solder pastes
- Ultrafine (type 5,6,7) solder pastes
- Die-attach solder pastes
- Die-attach wire
Andy is an electronics industry expert in physical chemistry, surface chemistry, rheology and semiconductor and semiconductor assembly materials and processes. He has over 20 years of experience in new product and process development and materials marketing in all areas of electronics manufacturing from wafer fabrication to semiconductor packaging and electronics assembly.
Andy is involved in several industry organizations including:
- Chair of the Editorial review board for Chip Scale Review magazine (2012 - Present)
- Member of the Assembly and Packaging subgroup of the ITRS (2011 - Present)
- Member of the Technical Advisory Committee for the annual International Wafer Level Packaging Conference (IWLPC) run by the SMTA (2008 - Present)
- Surface Mount Technology Association (SMTA) member and frequent invited speaker (1998 - Present)
Previous involvement:
- Past chair of the iNEMI/DOE SSL/LED roadmap task group (Level 1 assembly) (2010)
- Past vice president of technical programs for Empire (NY) State Chapter of SMTA (2010)
- Past chair of IPC solder paste task group (responsibly for J-STD-005) (1996 - 2001)
- Past vice-chair of IPC Assembly and Joining Materials Subcommittee (1998 - 2002)
Andy received the prestigious IPC President’s Award in 2001 for his leadership in both the Solder Paste Task Group and the Assembly and Joining Materials sub-committee. He has written papers and lectured internationally on subjects ranging from sub-ppb metals analysis in supercritical carbon dioxide to solder paste rheology. Additionally, he holds patents in novel polymers, gas analysis, and solder paste formulation.
Andy has a PhD in Physical Chemistry from the University of Nottingham, UK, and a Master’s of Science (MSc) in Colloid and Interface Science from the University of Bristol, UK. Additionally, he is formally trained in Six Sigma – Design of Experiments.
Andy is also well-known as the author of the Semiconductor Assembly blog.
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Andy C. Mackie, PhD, MSc's Blog Posts
Leadframe Solderability Issues in Power Semiconductors
It is no secret that automotive semiconductor customers are becoming increasingly demanding. The "under the hood / bonnet" electronics environment is arguably one of the most thermally stressful environments on the planet. Electronics close to the engine block can experience extremes ranging…
Ball-Attach Flux WS-446-NRD for Poor Quality OSP-wetting
While on a recent trip to Malaysia, I interviewed two colleagues regarding trends in semiconductor assembly. My previously-published interview with Sze-Pei Lim appears here. This time, while on a visit to a logic device manufacturer in the North West, I [ACM] talked briefly to Sehar Samiappan [SS],…
No-Clean Solder Paste for Clip-bonding Die-Attach
I’m just back from Malaysia, where I visited one of our larger customers who has been using our high-lead (high-Pb) dispensable NC-SMQ75 solder paste for many years. No surprises there, but what many people don’t realize is that the NC-SMQ75 solder paste can be used as a…
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