Indium Recycling – End of the Year Clean-up
When you are doing your year-end clean-up, check to see if you have any indium seals or scrap pieces of indium laying around. Send us your scrap indiu...
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New Research Paper Evaluates Liquid Metal for Microchannel Cooling Applications
A new paper sparked my interest recently: Experimental Thermal Energy Assessment of a Liquid Metal Eutectic in a Microchannel Heat Exchanger Equipped...
A Precise Equation Relating Karats of Gold to Density in Gold Alloys
Dr. Ron received a question asking him to verify a calculation used to determine the karat value of various gold-based alloys. It's not as si...
Creating a High Quality Indium Cryogenic Seal
Graham Wilson (Sr. Applications Engineer) and Jim Hisert talk about using indium wire or indium preforms for cryogenic seals. Find out what you need t...
Indium Mailbag - Indium Alloys
Indium Corporation manufactures 60 different alloys that contain indium, in addition to over 150 other non-indium-bearing alloys, such as SAC and...
The Impact of Bonding Surface Plating on the Reliability of a AuSn (Gold-Tin) Solder Joint
Performing die-attach using AuSn solder alloy preforms against gold plating? You may need an off-eutectic solder alloy to compensate for the Au that i...
Advanced Technology Workshop on Thermal Management
Indium Corporation presents paper at Advanced Technology Workshop that provdes metal thermal interface materials (TIMs) have a higher insertion rate a...
Patty and the Professor Flashback: Uptime Part 4
Folks, the adventures of The Professor continue. This blog post is a must-read if you are concerned about improving electronics assembly line pro...
Indium Mailbag – Alloy Samples
Having samples of different alloys can be very useful for R&D departments. Fortunately, Indium Corporation offers solder research kits so you can ...
The Professor's second visit to ACME..... continued
The Professor shows Acme how to increase profitability even with a $5.00 increase in pay by keeping their electronics assembly line running throu...
Laboratory and University Outreach, Recap 2018
Amy Schultz spends her days collaborating with universities and labs around the world. Her job is to help them further their research. How can she hel...
Indium Mailbag – Vacuum Chamber Reliability
Indium metal can be (and has been) used for long-term vacuum seals. If you are doing vacuum sealing, contact me for more inforamtion....