A New Low-Temperature Metallization Paste For Interconnecting Thin-Film Solar Cells
Last week I spent some time in the Advanced Materials and Process Development Lab with Eric Bastow, verifying the printing characteristics of our newe...
Last week I spent some time in the Advanced Materials and Process Development Lab with Eric Bastow, verifying the printing characteristics of our newe...
For reasons that I will discuss in a post later this year, a common factor that is emerging in the area of copper-pillar microbump 2.5D and 3D jo...
Included in a solder paste‘s Product Data Sheet, among other things, are general guidelines which aid the customer in designing a...
Solder starvation is a serious electronics assembly issue – with a very simple solution. Solder starvation occurs when adequate volumes of solde...
There seems to be a growing trend to use a low-Ag or Ag-free solder alloy for Surface Mount Technology (SMT) electronics assembly, similar to what is ...
Folks, Back in October, I posted comments on lead-free reliability. In this post, I mentioned that I chaired a session at SMTAI on “...
Folks, Let’s assume you are trying to improve the productivity of your SMT assembly lines. You work at a facility that manufactures high v...
Folks, The conclusion of the Bob and Fred break saga…... Phil stared, “The uptime on AXI’s four SMT production lines is…...
I just visited a customer that was converting from water soluble solder paste to no-clean. Not exactly a slam dunk transition as this customer found o...
Recently I was at a customer who reported that their SMT components were “blowing off” their PCB. In most of the instances the component w...
Folks, Answers to the quiz of a few weeks back…... Phil and Rob had agreed to ask the GM if it was OK to ask the tech and engineers at some of...
Solder paste is made to be reflowed in the SMT process. Exactly HOW that is done is critical to your success. Included in the Product Data Shee...