Field Data Encouraging for Lead-Free Solder Reliability
Folks, Although a few have suggested that lead-free reliability is an oxymoron, currently most people that have studied the reliability of SAC3...
Folks, Although a few have suggested that lead-free reliability is an oxymoron, currently most people that have studied the reliability of SAC3...
Folks, I have occasionally written on calculating solder alloy density, as there is surprisingly more interest than I thought there would be in ...
Based on a recent post I published regarding the use of bismuth (Bi) in solder alloys, John writes: “If Bismuth comes from the production o...
Folks, A few people asked some questions after my last post on bismuth solders. Here they are:......
Folks, When the industry was preparing to transition to lead-free solders almost ten years ago (can it have been that......
Folks, Many people have been infatuated by the price of gold in recent months, but the price of silver has also skyrocketed. In 2000 silver was a...
Folks, It was Wednesday evening and I had just finished a brief pitch on applications of SPC to a group of twenty. I was followed by Jim Ha...
Folks, HIS iSuppli performed a teardown analysis of an iPad . They estimate that the cost of the bill of materials (BOM) is $336....
Folks, Many people responded to my recent post, In Search of Tin Whisker Fails in Lead-Free Soldering. A few pointed out that the rece...
Folks, In a recent post, I shared my perspective on the pluses, minuses and neutral aspects of lead-free solder assembly. In the minus category, ...
Folks, I thought I would take a stab at listing the minuses, pluses, and “it’s a wash” aspects of assembling with lead-free (LF) sol...
Folks, Back in October, I posted comments on lead-free reliability. In this post, I mentioned that I chaired a session at SMTAI on “...