High-Temperature Soldering

Folks, In the last post on tin whiskers, we discussed detection. In this post, we will cover mitigation. Since compressive stresses are a primary cause of tin whiskers, minimizing these stresses will

I’d like to talk about how indium is used in many nuclear power plants to regulate the reaction which occurs. (If you need a quick primer on how nuclear power plants work, this is an

On a daily basis, Indium Corporation’s tech support receives calls and emails about soldering with the 80Au20Sn alloy. We sell both 80Au20Sn solder paste and preforms because both have particular

For some reason, I find the combination of gold and indium incredibly interesting. This shouldn’t come as a surprise; I caught gold fever panning for gold during a trip to Alaska, and

We have had a chance to look at low-temperature solder alloys and indium in particular. Now it is time to look at high-temperature solder and braze alloy options. Bernie Leavitt is our Senior Product

Folks, Pity Ötzi, The Iceman, circa 3500BC. It is believed that he was involved in copper smelting as both copper particles and arsenic, a trace element in some copper ores, were found in his

Back in 2013, Carol Gowans was interviewed by Kalwinder Kaur for an article which appeared on AZO Materials’ website. The full article can be found

Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) is a technique used to characterize cross sections of solder joints to identify a root cause to a soldering failure. Although there are many different detection

Previously in this blog series,we discussed some of the best practices for attaching thermocouples to a printed circuit board (PCB) for reflow profiling. Today, I will end this series with a few more