Posted On: July 25th, 2016 | By: Bernard Leavitt

Choosing the Right Gold Solder Alloy for Hermetic Package Sealing

Summary: Gold solder alloys are valuable due to their unique range of reflow temperatures and their resistance to corrosion, making them ideal for hig...

Posted On: April 11th, 2016 | By: Eric Bastow

The 6 Alloy Families: Gold

Eric Bastow discusses gold as a solder and braze ingredient. he covers physical properties and applications of gold and gold alloys, includi...

Posted On: February 29th, 2016 | By: Karthik Vijay

80Au/20Sn - solder or braze? Excellent question.

You may have heard the 80% gold 20% tin alloy referred to as a solder. Or, you may have heard it called a braze. I’m going to explain how both s...

Posted On: July 20th, 2015 | By: Dr. Ron Lasky

Estimating the Per Cent Gold In An Alloy: "Wet Gold Technique" Only Works with One Alloying Element… and You Must Know What That Element Is

Folks, The Wet Gold Technique is a simple way to estimate the percentage of gold in a gold alloy. This technique indirectly measures the density...

Posted On: June 30th, 2015 | By: Dr. Ron Lasky

Graphene: An Unlikely Candidate to Replace ITO in Flat Panel Displays

Folks, Let’s check in on Rob, while Patty is away…… Rob waved good bye to Patty as she drove away to the airport to attend a one w...

Posted On: April 8th, 2015 | By: Dr. Ron Lasky

Alloy Melting

Folks, Richard asks: Dear Dr. Ron, Recently we had a solderability problem with tin-finished component leads and SAC305 solder paste. One of our...

Posted On: February 10th, 2015 | By: Adam Murling

Fluxless Soldering

When I was learning about solder, I was very surprised when I......

Posted On: January 19th, 2015 | By: Jim Hisert

Specifying Solder Preforms - The Perfect Alloy

I’ve always been a strong believer that a customer should not get a solder alloy that just “works” for their application, they shoul...

Posted On: December 17th, 2013 | By: Jim Hisert

An Interveiw with Bob Bormann of Standard Printed Circuits

This year I had the pleasure of working with a circuit board company in Central New York called Standard Printed Circuits, Inc. From personal experien...

Posted On: September 19th, 2013 | By: Indium Corporation®

IMAPS 2013: International Symposium on Microelectronics

The 46th International Symposium on Microelectronics will be held in Orlando, Florida, September 30th through October 3rd, 2013. I will be attending b...