Low-Temperature Solder for Environmental Sustainability

As energy consumption has become increasingly important—in terms of cost, availability, and environmental impact—it is about time we use q...

Posted On: February 1st, 2023 | By: Dr. Ron Lasky

Response-to-Pause: A Critical Solder Paste Parameter

Folks, Solder paste is arguably the most highly engineered material in electronic assembly. It has many properties that must be favorable for its good...

Posted On: January 23rd, 2023 | By: Jenny Gallery

SPIE Photonics West 2023!

Indium Corporation to promote new specialty product offerings: AuLTRA™75, AuLTRA™ ThInFORMS™, and AuLTRA™ Fine Ribbo...

Posted On: January 3rd, 2023 | By: Dr. Ron Lasky

Minimizing Graping

Folks, This post is an excerpt on graping, from Indium Corporation's The Printed Circuits Assemblers Guide to Solder Defects. Intr...

Posted On: December 27th, 2022 | By: Shital Rijal

Shots

Shots provide a larger area-to-volume ratio for the metals and alloys that favor the interaction with external elements. Engineers using smaller melt ...

Posted On: December 19th, 2022 | By: Jenny Gallery

Which Off-Eutectic AuSn Alloy Do I Use?

Plating dies and/or substrates with pure gold works well to prevent the components from oxidizing, but can lead to undesirable gold-rich solder joints...

Posted On: December 19th, 2022 | By: Jenny Gallery

Stuck in a Slump? Factors Impacting Solder Paste Slump Susceptibility.

Certain solder pastes are more susceptible to experiencing slump than others due to both chemical properties and experimentation processes. Risk facto...

Posted On: December 19th, 2022 | By: Dr. Ron Lasky

Join Me at SMTA Pan Pacific 2023 to Learn about the Twin Paradox

Folks, Although my PhD is in materials science, my BS was in engineering physics. While getting my BS, I studied Einstein’s special theory of re...

Posted On: December 13th, 2022 | By: Indium Corporation®

Finding Common Ground: Gecko Feet and the Heat-Spring

You have no doubt come across a sticky-stretchy figure that you throw against a wall and it slowly slinks down to the floor. There is a common misconc...

Posted On: December 5th, 2022 | By: Dr. Ron Lasky

Have You Been Keeping up with The Adventures of Maggie Benson?

Folks, Two of the workers at Ivy-Benson electronics just got engaged and they are on their way to a factory in Mexico to see if their boss Maggie Bens...