Greenpeace Critical of Apple's Environmental Policy
In a follow-up to my previous posting, Greenpeace’s rationale for giving Apple marginal rankings on BFR and PVC elimination seem to be somewhat ...
In a follow-up to my previous posting, Greenpeace’s rationale for giving Apple marginal rankings on BFR and PVC elimination seem to be somewhat ...
Greenpeace has just updated their “Guide to Greener Electronics.“ There are a couple of interesting tibdits that I took from their r...
Brandon Judd and I have been working on a paper for this year’s SMTAI event, and I thought I......
A colleague in California was on the phone last week: “We need a flux with greater activity!” He said. Choking down comments like “M...
This is something you may have run into if you’ve ever manually dipped and placed PoP components.span style="mso-spacerun:......
In previous posts, we have mentioned soldering to gold, but never discussed the unique processing aspects related to this. div sty...
If you’re new to PV module assembly (tabbing in particular), you’re probably trying to get a feel for all the needed materials.&nbs...
PV interconnect products have a lot of nicknames: tabbing ribbon, interconnect wire, bus bar, stringing ribbon, etc. I......
Differential Scanning Calorimeter (TA Instruments Q100) The optimal solder reflow profile for a given assembly involves a peak reflow temperature that...
The question often arises as to whether or not a water wash solder paste should be halogen-free. Since halogen-free is fundimentally an environm...
This year we tried to plan something a little different for APEX. Instead of the normal booth,......
After transferring flux, align the stencil Setup print parameters to minimize doubles and......