Celebrating Women in Science at Indium Corporation!
Join us as we’re introducing our latest series, “Celebrating Women in Science.” In the coming weeks, get to know six women at Indium...
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Excel Software Tool to Determine Mass Fractions in Binary Alloy
Folks, Recently, I posted a derivation of the equations to determine the mass fractions of two metals in a binary alloy. I thought it may be help...
How to Calculate the Metal Mass Fractions in a Two-Metal Alloy System
Folks, I was surprised to see the wrong formula for metal alloy density calculations on YouTube. The wrong (Eq. 1) and correct (Eq. 2) formulas ...
Indium, not silicon, will likely lead to 6G communications
The rollout of wireless communication networks began back in 1979 when Nippon launched the first commercially automated mobile network, known today as...
IMS 2022!
The International Microwave Symposium (IMS) (June 21-23) is the premier annual international meeting for technologists involved in all aspec...
New Excel Software Tools to Practice for SMTA Certification #2: Reflow Profiling
Folks, In my last post, I shared about an Excel®-based software tool called Line Balancer™ to help candidates for SMTA Certification prepare...
Driving e-Mobility: Rel-ion™ series focuses on opportunities, challenges in rapidly evolving market
The tomorrow of yesterday is here today. At the start of this year, registered electric vehicletos (EVs) on global highways totaled just over 10 milli...
New Excel Software Tools to Practice for SMTA Certification #1: Line Balancing
Folks, I recently developed some Excel®-based software to help those who are planning to take the SMTA certification exam to practice. Software to...
The Pin-in-Paste Process with Donut-Shaped Preforms
Folks, some years ago I created a software tool, StencilCoach™, to calculate the stencil parameters to provide for an adequate amount of so...
Enhanced SIR testing for Reliability
SIR testing has been around for a while. Why? And why might we want to use tests that are even more challenging than the current J-STD-004B?...
When Life Gives You Lumens, Make LED Paste!
AuLTRA™ 3.2 and AuLTRA™ 5.1 are air or nitrogen reflow AuSn solder pastes specially formulated for higher processing temperatures and asse...
Reflow Oven Profiling
Reflow oven profiling can be your most powerful process validation and verification tool. It can be simplified as to not be a dreaded task to be skipp...