Die Cutting NanoFoil®, High Volume Part Singulation
Here at Indium Corporation we use punch presses to die cut NanoFoil® for our NanoFoil® research kits. We use this equipment to singulate the m...
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NanoFoil® Scrap Handling Suggestions
Let’s start with a bit of fiction to get us on the same page… Mike is working with NanoFoil®, getting ready to bond a small, round, p...
NanoFoil® Cracking
I recently noticed something that appeared in a 3rd party lab report that a customer shared with me. This lab report was an analysis of a NanoBond®...
Thermal conductivity of NanoFoil®
A NanoBond® acts like a traditional solder bond in many ways. After reaction, the bulk properties of NanoFoil® are similar to that of many sol...
2013 SVC Presentation: A High Temperature, High-Strength, Pb-Free, Metallic Sputtering Target Bond using Reactive Multilayer NanoFoil
I’m not the only one presenting new NanoFoil® data at this year’s SVC (Society of Vacuum Coaters) Conference. Another member of o...
2013 SVC Presentation: Eliminating the Bond Stress of Sputtering Targets at Operational Temperatures
I invite you to come to the Emerging Technology session of the SVC (Society of Vacuum Coaters) Conference on Wednesday April 24th – where I&rsqu...
Packaging NanoFoil® Preforms
NanoFoil® can be packaged in tape & reel, bulk containers, or waffle packages. Here are the main advantages of each type of packaging: Tape &a...
DIY: Applying Solder to Molybdenum, Titanium, and Tungsten (Ultrasonic Soldering)
There are many sputtering target materials that are tricky to solder to. For those alloys we ‘bring out the big guns’ – in this case...
DIY: Applying Solder to Copper, Nickel, and Platinum (Flux)
In order to NanoBond® parts that are made out of copper, nickel, or platinum, we must first apply solder to the bonding surface. This......
DIY: Applying Solder to Aluminum and Aluminum Alloys (Scrubbing)
Aluminum is a very common material to bond to, although it is a little tricky to solder to with traditional methods. The method that we......
DIY: Masking a NanoBond® Area
NanoFoil® is a great localized heat source, but it can cause some ugly looking aesthetic defects if the process is not set up correctly. Let̵...
DIY: Connecting NanoFoil®
Sometimes one piece of NanoFoil® just isn’t enough… We often NanoBond® sputtering targets which are large enough to require multi...