Join Me at SMTA's PanPac 2022 - January 31 to February 3
Folks, I will be presenting three papers at PanPac 2022. They are: 1. Low Melt High Remelt Solder Paste, co-authored with Claire Hotvedt of Indium Cor...
Dr. Ron Lasky's Blog
Using FMEA to Determine Your Tin Whisker Mitigration Strategy
Folks, In our last post, we discussed techniques to mitigate tin whiskers. To help determine what your tin whisker mitigation strategy should be, cons...
Tin Whiskers IV: Mitigation
Folks, In the last post on tin whiskers, we discussed detection. In this post, we will cover mitigation. Since compressive stresses are a primary caus...
Tin Whiskers 101: Part III: Detection
Folks, One of the great challenges of tin whiskers is detecting them. When one considers that their median thickness is in the 3 to 5 micron range (a...
SMTAI: A Big Success
Folks, I just can back from SMTAI in Minneapolis a few weeks ago. To me it was a big success. One of the reasons being that attendance was higher than...
Tin Whiskers 101: Part 2: What Causes Them
Folks, Continuing our series on tin whiskers. In the last post we discussed what they are. in this post we will discuss what causes them. Tin whiske...
Winners Announced for SMT IQ Test
Folks, A few weeks ago, I posted an SMT quiz on my blog as an opportunity for my readers to test their SMT IQ. We recei...
Test your SMT IQ to See if You Are Ready to Go Back to Your Campus
Folks, Do you know the answers to the questions below?...
Tin Whiskers 101: What are They?
Folks, Tin whiskers are very fine filaments or whiskers of tin that form out of the surface of the tin. See Figure 1. They are the result of stress re...
Full Autonomous Vehicles Still Decades Away?
Folks, Businessweek’s recent article on autonomous vehicles summarized the current state of this fascinating technology. The article discussed W...
Matching a Reflow Profile to a Solder Paste Spec
Folks, Matching a reflow profile to a solder paste spec is a required skill for an SMT process engineer. In light of this, let’s do an exam...
Belated Happy Birthday RoHS
Folks, Happy Birthday RoHS! A milestone occurred, and it seemed to be missed: RoHS celebrated its 15th birthday on July 1st! For those new to electron...