Flux Activators: What they are / What they do
A colleague in California was on the phone last week: “We need a flux with greater activity!” He said. Choking down comments like “M...
A colleague in California was on the phone last week: “We need a flux with greater activity!” He said. Choking down comments like “M...
...and we’re back with more nitrogen and inert soldering myths. Part I of this post can be found here. Myth 6: “I turned on......
In my twenty years in the electronics manufacturing industry, I have heard a lot of claims made about the use of nitrogen in inerted soldering ...
Something that seems counter-intuitive to many customers, yet seems obvious to a rheologist is why the percent metal loading of solder paste vari...
A passage from Metals Handbook, Volume 6, 1983Ӕ According to the Encarta Dictionary that......
If you are like me, when you hear the term “whammy” you think back to the 80’s game show called Press Your Luck. The electroni...
Have you ever wondered about what happens to a Pb-free Ball-Grid Array (BGA), with Tin/Silver/Copper (SAC) spheres in a Tin/Lead (Sn/Pb) proces...
Indium Corporation (I say “Indium Corporation”: it’s actually me and my colleague Tim Jensen) is in the middle of drafting a positio...
You may notice that many of the solar grade fluxes and solder pastes are designated ‘no-clean’. This classification......
90um flux deposits on silicon (Follows this post) span style="font-size: 10pt;......
A lot has changed in the world of package-on-package in the last few years. The most obvious change......