ITO (Indium-Tin Oxide) Sputtering Target Reclaim/Recycling
ITO is one of the materials that makes the magic of flat panel displays (monitors, TVs, etc.) possible. When sputtered on in a thin layer, it act...
Gold Solder
Package-on-Package (PoP) Solder Paste
A quick trip to discuss roadmapping with one of the world’s top processor manufacturers, and a visit to discuss Pb-free power die-attach materia...
Epoxy Flux Dipping for CSP and PoP Applications
This week a customer in Asia asked why one of our new epoxy fluxes was not allowing the package-on-package (PoP) device to be picked up from the dippi...
The Printed Circuit Board: More Important Now Than Ever
Folks, My interest was piqued by a recent article from the pen of good friend, Ray Rasmussen. In this a href="http://www.pcbdesign007.com/pa...
Metallurgy as Modern Alchemy: Bismuth
Although most scientists today feel that alchemy has been widely discredited, and I have been taught to agree, the idea of it is whimsical and exhilar...
Unique Solderspheres
Solderspheres or solder spheres, or even solder balls: whatever you call them, Indium Corporation has been making them for years and has rightly acqui...
Halogen-free High-Lead(Pb) Die-Attach Solder Paste: Not an Oxymoron
I mentioned in a previous a blog posting that the primary driver for halogen-free electronics is ostensibly environmental, but that the confusion abou...
Solder Pros Mention Indium PoP Paste
Two big names in electronics assembly (Vern Solberg and Phil Damberg) recently wrote an article for Circuits Assembly Magazine regarding &ld...
PoP Clamping Rework Nozzle
Click here for a description and video that shows a nozzle design from FINETECH which clamps down onto PoP components during rework. ...
Has RoHS Really Been Successful?
In a recent blog entry titled RoHS: 3 Years Later, Dr. Lasky comments on the overall success of the RoHS legislation. Before imp...