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History of Indium Corporation and the Development of Indium for Commercial Use

Phil Zarrow: Jim, I understand Indium Corporation has a really fascinating history. I also understand you have a book that chronicles it. Jim Hisert: I do. I have a copy here of the second edition of

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Breaking the Ice

Hello Readers, I have recently completed my first week as a college intern at Indium Corporation and am very pleased with my experience so far. However, before I explain any further I would like to

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Student Governance: Increasing Leadership Skills

As an undergraduate student, obtaining an internship for a company such as Indium Corporation requires surmounting the competition in skills and expertise. One of the most effective and rewarding

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Steven P. Napolitano: Who I Am

How's it going guys? I'm Steven Napolitano and I am the 2017 Preventative Maintenance College Intern here at Indium Corporation. I am currently reporting to Senior Maintenance Manager, Brian

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Solder Redefined Part 1 – Introduction

Seth Homer: Hybrid electric vehicles, green energy and power management are just a few of the industries taking advantage of insulated gate bipolar transistors technology or IGBTs. But when you

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Jakob Webster: Accounting/Finance Intern

It's an incredible opportunity to have been chosen as the Finance Intern for Indium Corporation’s 2017 Summer College Internship

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Summer Internship Program at Indium Corporation

Greetings and welcome to my first blog as an Intern at Indium Corporation! I am a summer college intern in the procurement department, which plays a very important roll here. Being a student at

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How Transferring Schools Led Me to Indium Corporation.

I thought I had my college experience all planned out in October of senior year of high school. I had committed to dive on the Division 1 Women’s Swimming and Diving Team at Iona College in New

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Quantum Dots – a bright future!

Indium Corporation is heavily involved in the Quantum Dot market. With developingmarkets for manyapplications and forecast CAGR of 120% 2017-2021, achieving USD9.9bn by 2021 it pays to know what you

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Career Day

Today was a different kind of experience as an intern at Indium Corporation. Yesterday, I was told that Jim McCoy and I would be visiting Remsen Elementary School’s career

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Bottom Termination Components Design Panel at ICSR 2017

Brook Sandy-Smith will be moderating the Bottom Termination Components Design Panel at ICSR 2017. Learn more about

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Looking Forward to the 2018 SVC TechCon

A few weeks ago we attended the annual Society of Vacuum Coaters Conference in Providence, RI. This is a great show for people looking for the newest advancements in PVD equipment, materials, and

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Intermetallic Growth Rate is Strongly Temperature Dependent

Folks, In our last post, I discussed that, contrary to popular belief, intermetallic compounds (IMCs) formed in soldering processes are not necessarily brittle. I reviewed some literature that

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Fortify Your RF Shield Connections, One Solder Fortification Preform at a Time

As I covered ina previous post, Solder Fortification solder preforms can be applied to solder paste to ensure sufficient solder joint volume. So, where exactly can you use these solder preforms to

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Braze: Advantages of Indium-Contained Alloys

Indium is commonly used to suppress the melting point of various alloys. These low-temp indium alloys range in solidus temperature from 157°C to 7°C. That’s right; some of the alloys

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The New Generation of Soldering

Hello Readers, My name is Kim Flanagan. This is my first official blog post, but this is not my ‘first rodeo’ with Indium Corporation. I have worked in multiple company facilities over

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EGaIn (Eutectic Gallium / Indium Liquid Metal) Will Change How We Think Of Electronics

Recently we discussed stretchable electronics developments happening at Carnegie Mellon University. I hope you found that story interesting, if you did then you are sure to enjoy the work that is

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Intermetallics and Kirkendall Voids Continue to Grow at Room Temperature

Folks, In my last post, I discussed intermetallic compounds (IMCs) and what I referred to as the “miracle of

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Quantum Dots – Versatility.

A previousblog briefly described what Quantum Dots

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Indium Blue – Coming to a Crayola Crayon Box Near You!

You may have recently read that Crayola retired the yellow crayon color "Dandelion" so they could replace it with a new color. Here is an article on the topic from Fortune

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What is the World’s Most Recycled Metal?

It's not indium. As a technologist, my first reaction to the title of this post was, “What do you mean by 'most'?” Well, let’s assume we are discussing the metal that

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