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...
Gold Solder
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Wet Gold: A Technique to Measure Density Without Knowing the Volume
Folks, In the category of interesting requests, Ron, a gold worker, from Guyana, sent me the following note: Dr. Ron, My colleagues use a “...