Flux Activators: What they are / What they do
A colleague in California was on the phone last week: “We need a flux with greater activity!” He said. Choking down comments like “M...
A colleague in California was on the phone last week: “We need a flux with greater activity!” He said. Choking down comments like “M...
Tin Whiskers growing between pure tin-plated hook terminals of an electromagnetic relay. Image courtesy of nepp.nasa.gov ......
Have you ever wondered about what happens to a Pb-free Ball-Grid Array (BGA), with Tin/Silver/Copper (SAC) spheres in a Tin/Lead (Sn/Pb) proces...
In previous posts, we have mentioned soldering to gold, but never discussed the unique processing aspects related to this. div sty...
Picture of a Used Car: Because you’re Good People Drilling into what’s happening with European ELV legislation and how US stakeholder...
Under-the-Hood: The “Death Valley” of Power Electronics New insights in April into changes in the European ELV (End-of-life vehi...
Folks, In teaching process optimization and failure analysis, one of the most helpful concepts is understanding he difference between common cause and...
Folks, Recently someone asked me about reworking a SAC305 solder joint with a SnBi solder. The reason to consider SnBi was that the lower melting...
This year we tried to plan something a little different for APEX. Instead of the normal booth,......
Folks I was chatting recently with Indium Corporation’s Mike Fenner about Sn/Cu alloys for solder paste. Mike has many years of experience ...
The Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor (IGBT) module is rapidly taking over from MOSFET technology as the solid-state power switch of choice. Die-attac...
Folks, The advent of 0201 and even 01005 passives and CSPs with 30 mil lead spacings necessitate very small solder deposits in the stencil printing pr...