Is Conductive Epoxy a Low-Temperature Alternative to Lead-Free Solder?
Conductive epoxy is a common material choice for bonding components, especially if the assembly process is temperature-sensitive. Tin-based solde...
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...
I probably should have mentioned in my last post, you don’t need to start from scratch. Here are......
Under-the-Hood: The “Death Valley” of Power Electronics New insights in April into changes in the European ELV (End-of-life vehi...
Folks I was chatting recently with Indium Corporation’s Mike Fenner about Sn/Cu alloys for solder paste. Mike has many years of experience ...
When you think of solders, you generally think of tin, lead, copper, silver. But have you ever considered bismuth? Bismuth as a pure metal...
The most common metal thermal interface materials are made from indium alloys which melt between 100C to 200C. Some power devices I have come across d...
Here is a pretty good list of resources on the topic of corrosion, if you’re interested: 1. Chongchen Xu. “Corrosion in Microelectronics&l...
Tabbing Ribbon Solar tabbing ribbon typical consists of 10-15 micrometers of solder alloy coated on OFHC or ETP copper strip. SN60, (60% tin and 40% l...