Specifying Indium Preform Purity
Indium is commonly available from 99.9% to 99.9999% purity, although 99.995-99.999% is recommended most often for vacuum, hermetic, and cryogenic seal...
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The Importance of Tension on Fine Diameter Cored Wire in Robotic Soldering Applications
Thoughts on the importance of tension in the robotic soldering process....
Driving the Packaging Frontier: Part 1
Indium Corporation’s Dr. Andy Mackie, Senior Product Manager, Semiconductor and Advanced Assembly Materials, and Sze Pei Lim, Regional Manager, ...
Specifying Pure Indium Solder Preforms
How to get the right pure indium solder preform to work with your application....
Cold Welding: All Metals Versus Indium
All metals can be cold welded. Indium is unique in that it can cold weld to itself at extremely low pressure....
The Complete Introduction to Pure Indium Preforms
Buckle-up and prepare to geek-out, because you’re about to learn all the basics of specifying, making, and applying pure indium preforms....
Why is a Soldering Flux Needed?
There are several questions that come up when learning about fluxes like, what does a flux do? How does a flux work? Why do I need a flux?...
Adopting Semiconductor Assembly Process Techniques and Technologies
Indium Corporation’s Miloš Lazić, Technical Support Engineer, and Sze Pei Lim, Regional Manager, Semiconductor, discuss new technolo...
Selecting a Reflow Oven Length
Should I purchase a 5-zone, 7-zone, or 10-zone oven to assemble some large boards for the new contract I just signed? Dr. Ron provides you with s...
Eutectic vs. Non-eutectic Solder Alloys
Every alloy has both a solidus and a liquidus melting temperature. The solidus temperature is the point when the alloy just starts to melt. ...
What Changed Between IPC J-STD-004A and J-STD-004B?
Comparing and contrasting these two standards....
What is an Alloy?
An alloy is comprised of two or more metals. These metals are stable and have some level of solubility together; otherwise, they would not form ...