DIY: Determining What NanoFoil® You Have On Hand
If you have some NanoFoil® on hand at your facility and you do not have the original packaging, all hope is not......
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DIY: Hand Cutting NanoFoil®
Hand cutting is only one option for shaping NanoFoil®, however it is quick, easy, and inexpensive. All you need to......
DIY: Immersion Tin Plating Copper Substrates
One of our customers discovered a little trick to save some time and avoid having his parts sent out for tin plating. At a......
DIY: Electroplating NanoFoil®
A few years back, Indium Corporation’s own Eric Bastow set up a prototype NanoFoil® plating process to demonstrate the material and......
NanoFoil® Do-It-Yourself Tips and Tricks
Using NanoFoil®can be very easy, and there are many things you can do yourself to make prototyping or production easier, save money, and get the r...
NanoFoil® and Personal Safety
You’d imagine that a material which can reach 1,500°C instantly should be treated with caution, and it should, but NanoFoil® is a lot sa...
NanoFoil® Environmental and Shipping Safety
NanoFoil® is as simple as elemental nickel and aluminum, with small amounts of vanadium, indium, copper, and silver. Due to the benign nature of ...
NanoFoil® as a Thermal Interface Material
NanoFoil® has many uses, and, sometimes, it has more than one function in an application. For instance, if tin coated NanoFoil® is......
Sn-plated NanoFoil®
Tin-coated NanoFoil® is not one, but two very different products, combined. It is a heat source and a form of solder. In the world of interconnect...
NanoFoil® Coating
InCuSil™ is a common term for an alloy of indium, copper, and silver which (depending on composition) has various melting points in the brazing ...
My Favorite NanoBond® Application Note
We commonly receive questions like: “Can NanoFoil® be used to bond silicon?” or, “What surface flatness do I need to NanoBo...
Activation of NanoFoil®
NanoFoil® is described as “reactive multilayer foil”. It is comprised of many alternating layers of aluminum and nickel which are eac...