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...
Eric Bastow discusses gold as a solder and braze ingredient. he covers physical properties and applications of gold and gold alloys, includi...
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...
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...
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...
Folks, Richard asks: Dear Dr. Ron, Recently we had a solderability problem with tin-finished component leads and SAC305 solder paste. One of our...
I’ve always been a strong believer that a customer should not get a solder alloy that just “works” for their application, they shoul...
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...
The 46th International Symposium on Microelectronics will be held in Orlando, Florida, September 30th through October 3rd, 2013. I will be attending b...
Folks, In the category of interesting requests, Ron, a gold worker, from Guyana, sent me the following note: Dr. Ron, My colleagues use a “...
There have been a variety of people who were key to the development of indium metal in general, and Indium Corporation in particular, over the ye...