The Thermal Team on Tour
Can’t get enough of us? Members of Indium’s thermal management team will be attending MEPTEC’s 4th Annual Thermal Management symposi...
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Transfer Efficiency 2: Solder Paste Print Tolerances
For the second half of Solder Paste Transfer Efficiency, I would like to talk about tolerances and the Rule of 10% Standard Deviation (σ). From ...
Design Options for Metal Thermal Interface Materials in LEDs
With the Strategies in Light show just behind us, I thought it a good time to discuss a little further the use of metal thermal interface materials......
Indium Corporation Wall Chart
Do you have a 2’ x 3’ area on the wall of your office or cubical for the latest new and improved Indium Corporation Wall Chart? a......
How We Fell In Love
Okay, I’ll be honest – I think it’s pretty cheesy to write an entry on Valentines Day regarding my passion for the industry. I will,...
Soldering Basics
A couple of my colleagues, Jim Hisert and Andy Mackie recently published an article about the use of solders in chip packaging. The article begins wit...
Ancient Text
I love to read white papers from the 1930’s on indium (the element). People had no idea what interesting properties they would discover from wor...
Welcome to the Engineered Solders Blog
Engineered Solders have a long history at Indium. They have been called many things that made sense to us because of the way we made them. But......
Transfer Efficiency 1: Solder Paste Height versus Component Pitch
A great Indium Knowledge Base question came from a customer last week for “recommendations on solder paste height versus component pitch…&...
A Method to Attach Indium Interfaces over Large Surface Areas
In a past entry, I discussed the characteristic formation of surface oxides on indium and the various methods by which to remove these to achieve a so...