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 ...
Shots provide a larger area-to-volume ratio for the metals and alloys that favor the interaction with external elements. Engineers using smaller melt ...
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...
Certain solder pastes are more susceptible to experiencing slump than others due to both chemical properties and experimentation processes. Risk facto...
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...
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...
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...
Folks, This post is an excerpt from Indium Corporation's The Printed Circuits Assemblers Guide to Solder Defects. Introduction: Printed...
Just last month at the IMAPS show in Boston, Sze Pei Lim and I had the opportunity to chat with Francoise von Trapp from 3D InCites to discuss materia...
MicroLED assembly is coming to mass commercialization soon and Indium Corporation, as a solder supplier, is ready for this new LED-augmented reality. ...
Folks, I am presenting a workshop on Defeating Defects at SMTAI on October 31. This workshop is based on the recently published booklet The Printed Ci...
Folks, I’ve gone to SMTA PanPac since 2018 and it is a terrific conference. This coming year’s conference, from January 30 to Februar...
I have been often asked what the cost estimate for solder paste when quoting a product. Many CAD/CAM software packages have a copper area calculator a...