Low Temperature Alloys - Soldering 101
The most common melting temperature range for standard solders (like SnPb or SnPbAg) is in the 180°C to 190°C range, and the mo...
Indalloy
Solder Bonding to Non-Metallics: Indium 101
If you look for indium on the periodic chart, you will see that it located right by tin (Sn) and lead (Pb) but it is a world away in terms of its prop...
What's Happening in the Technical Service Department
After a quick survey of a few of the technical service personnel in the office today, I put together a little snapshot of what is happening rig...
Liquid Metal Packaging for Thermal Transfer
We’ve had some questions about using liquid metal or indium alloys liquid at room temperature containing indium and gallium, and the...
Liquid Metal Wetting
I assure you, the following is not some strange alien test of foreign materials. Even though it resembles a substance from the spaceship in E.T. ̵...
Liquid Metal Thermal Interface Materials 1
A drop of liquid metal. img src="http://www.indium.com/_images/1116/liquid_metal_thermal_interface_materials_gallium_aluminum_reaction_corrosive_...
Alloy Thermal Conductivity
Calculating the thermal conductivity of an alloy is not done by taking an average (or weighted average) of its elemental constituents. When two metals...
Liquid Metal as a TIM2
I was searching the web and saw a blog entry on Liquid Metal TIM. The web address is http://reviews.pimprig.com/cooling/coollaboratory_liquid_metal.ph...