Au-mazing Solutions: How AuLTRA® Fine Wire Brings Gold Standard Precision to Medical Devices
Indium Corporation’s AuLTRA® Fine Wire is setting a new standard in precision and reliability for medical device manufacturing where gold-ba...
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Au-mazing Solutions: How AuLTRA® MediPro is Setting the Gold Standard for Medical Device Soldering
Indium Corporation's AuLTRA® MediPro product line offers high-performance gold-based solder materials for medical devices, ensuring reliabilit...
Which Off-Eutectic AuSn Alloy Do I Use?
Plating dies and/or substrates with pure gold works well to prevent the components from oxidizing, but can lead to undesirable gold-rich solder joints...
Stuck in a Slump? Factors Impacting Solder Paste Slump Susceptibility.
Certain solder pastes are more susceptible to experiencing slump than others due to both chemical properties and experimentation processes. Risk facto...
'Weld', 'Weld', 'Weld', What Do We Have Here and How Is It Different from Soldering?
Soldering and welding are often used interchangeably in metal fabrication, but each technique is different and has a distinct application. While both ...
IMS 2022!
The International Microwave Symposium (IMS) (June 21-23) is the premier annual international meeting for technologists involved in all aspec...
When Life Gives You Lumens, Make LED Paste!
AuLTRA™ 3.2 and AuLTRA™ 5.1 are air or nitrogen reflow AuSn solder pastes specially formulated for higher processing temperatures and asse...
Back to Basics: Au-Based Alloys
Indium's “Gold Standard” refers to the overall reliability and quality you can expect from our gold-based solder materials. Gold-based...
Solder in Medical Devices: Wait, There's Solder There?
Shielding the RF waves generated by an MRI machine is mandatory. Soldered copper is one the metals used for RF shielding because it absorbs radio and ...
Solder in Medical Devices: That Solder’s Going Where?
Cardiac pacemakers generally use 99.99% Au preforms as the solder material in the assembly. Pure gold is highly pure, inert, biocompatible, has a high...
Solder in Medical Devices: What Solder Are You Wearing?
Both hearing aids and CGMs, wearable medical devices, generally use fine powdered SAC305 solder paste, or an equivalent, in the assembly. This complie...
Solder in Medical Devices
The assembly of medical devices uses a wide variety of alternative soldering processes, of which the most frequently used solder products include past...