Low-Temperature Solder for Environmental Sustainability
As energy consumption has become increasingly important—in terms of cost, availability, and environmental impact—it is about time we use q...
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Response-to-Pause: A Critical Solder Paste Parameter
Folks, Solder paste is arguably the most highly engineered material in electronic assembly. It has many properties that must be favorable for its good...
SPIE Photonics West 2023!
Indium Corporation to promote new specialty product offerings: AuLTRA™75, AuLTRA™ ThInFORMS™, and AuLTRA™ Fine Ribbo...
Minimizing Graping
Folks, This post is an excerpt on graping, from Indium Corporation's The Printed Circuits Assemblers Guide to Solder Defects. Intr...
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 ...
Stuck in a Slump? Factors Impacting Solder Paste Slump Susceptibility.
Certain solder pastes are more susceptible to experiencing slump than others due to both chemical properties and experimentation processes. Risk facto...
Join Me at SMTA Pan Pacific 2023 to Learn about the Twin Paradox
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...
Which Off-Eutectic AuSn Alloy Do I Use?
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...
Finding Common Ground: Gecko Feet and the Heat-Spring
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...