Extremely Precise Alloy Density Calculation is Difficult
Folks, Ken writes: Dr. Ron, Thanks for your helpful post. I get close (-1.1%) with your formulas for an alloy I am working with. I think the crystal...
Folks, Ken writes: Dr. Ron, Thanks for your helpful post. I get close (-1.1%) with your formulas for an alloy I am working with. I think the crystal...
Wandering through the references to indium metal on the internet, I sometimes see it referred to as, “that ‘rare’ metal.“...
Solderspheres or solder spheres, or even solder balls: whatever you call them, Indium Corporation has been making them for years and has rightly acqui...
Folks, Bob Landman’s comments to my tin whisker posts appear below. Friendly dialogue such as this helps us to all learn more and is ...
Folks, After my recent post on the fact that there was no data linking tin whiskers to the Toyota sudden acceleration issues, there continue to be m...
If you look for indium on the periodic chart, you will see that it located right by tin (Sn) and lead (Pb) but it is a world away in terms of its prop...
Folks, UPDATE: To be fair and thorough myself, I want to point out two things: 1.span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';......
Conductive epoxy is a common material choice for bonding components, especially if the assembly process is temperature-sensitive. Tin-based solde...
Ignoring the solder selection as part of your design process is risky business. font face="Times......
Tin Whiskers growing between pure tin-plated hook terminals of an electromagnetic relay. Image courtesy of nepp.nasa.gov ......
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...
In previous posts, we have mentioned soldering to gold, but never discussed the unique processing aspects related to this. div sty...