What a J-STD-004 classification of "OR" means and what it doesn't mean
Most SMT fluxes and solder pastes are either classified as RO or OR. Every once in a while one will see an occasional RE flux. People typically recogn...
Most SMT fluxes and solder pastes are either classified as RO or OR. Every once in a while one will see an occasional RE flux. People typically recogn...
My colleagues and I have had several conversations with customers wanting to use indium against an aluminum surface, either for the sake of creating a...
Not all metals play well together. And this spills over in to the world of electronics and the materials used therein. A relatively new and relevant e...
The current version of IPC J-STD-004 is revision B, often referred to as J-STD-004B. Interestingly, all previous revisions remain useable. Let’s...
It is summer time again in the Northern Hemisphere and many places, especially in North America, are experiencing record heat. It also seems that most...
It is not often that we get a request for SIR (Surface Insulation Resistance) and/or ECM (Electro-Chemical Migration) results for a water washable/sol...
Indium Corporation is hosting a booth (#809) and will be highlighting a series of......
Indium and indium-containing alloys see wide use in a multitude of soldering applications. Indium has many attractive properties such as remaining duc...
Tombstoning (also known as the Manhattan effect, drawbridge effect, or Stonehenge effect) is described (in the simplest, and most common, sense) as oc...
Solder paste is comprised of powdered solder alloy suspended in a flux vehicle. There is a group of flux ingredients that is generically identified as...
Intermetallics are a necessary evil in the metal-to-metal bonding world, which definitely includes soldering. There are two basic ways that metal will...
If you are left with an indium sulfamate plating bath or solution that you no longer use or need, you may have wondered what to do with it. It may be ...