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There are over 200 solder alloys used to bond copper, gold, nickel, and silver surfaces. Very few of those solders can bond what we consider ‘difficult’ surfaces like cobalt, titanium,

Folks, Most articles discussing the copper-tin intermetallics that form during soldering refer to them as a necessary evil. The evil being the perception that intermetallics are brittle and can lead

Throughout the Indium Corporation website, and most prolifically on the Indium Blog, we have discussed soldering to non-metals. There really is no perfect list of all the materials that indium can

Folks, C Charts are control charts used to track attribute data. As an example, suppose you are tracking defects at the end of an SMT assembly process. Management hasstated that they want to know how

In a recent post we interviewed Shamaine Engler on the topic of cryogenic seal applications. As a follow-up, today we are speaking with Kim Flanagan (Technical Support Engineer) about specifying

Interview with Sze Pei Lim at Productronica China

At Indium Corporation,we useindium metal to makemany different forms, such as: wire, ribbon, and solder preforms. We also use it to produce various indium compounds. One of those indium compounds is

I recently had a conversation with Shamaine Engler (Technical Specification Administrator for Indium Corporation) about indium metal in cryogenic seals. She is particularly focused on learning the

Phil Zarrow: Brook, we've been talking about process issues with solder paste. Let's talk about care and handling. We receive our solder paste from shipping and handling, what's next?

Phil Zarrow: Brook, I understand you've been doing a lot of work in material comparisons. What have you found? Is there any one particular standout? BrookSandy-Smith: So my go to paste right now

Sze Pei Lim: The typical challenges SiP customers are facing is because when they pack more of the components into a tiny space, components are getting smaller and the gap between the two laboring

This is the time of year when people begin to look back on their New Year’s resolutions and realize that their good intentions were just that. While some people will just give up – smart

80Au20Sn solder wire is widely used in the aerospace and medical electronics fields. The wire is used in hand soldering, or automated processes, for soldering wires to contacts. The alloy's high

Recently I was asked by two area schools, SUNY Polytechnic Institute and Utica College, to come to campus and participate in mock interviews with

Folks, I just read an article suggesting that each newly-deployed robot will eliminate 6 human's jobs. The authors may be right, but I think they miss a point. In the early 1800s, when

One of the first trade shows I attended when I began my career in the electrics industry was an IPC Flexible Circuits Conference in 2006. A decade ago we were talking about advances in flexible

Folks, I have written a few posts on self-driving automobiles and on my belief that fulling self-driving autos are decades away. I recently discovered a few authors who agree with me that getting 95%

Indium Corporation offers thermal interfaces to help facilitate the burn-in process for ICs (integrated circuits). This process is an accelerated stress test used to weed out bad components. Please

Spring college career fair season is in full swing! Many schools have held this semester's career event already, with several more scheduled over the coming

Indium is a very unique metal, and some of the unique properties of this material can be used to ‘break the rules’ of traditional bonding and

Chlorides -common anduseful … like salt, NaCl. Consider one ofthe more unusual and reactive salts: Gallium Trichloride GaCl3: an anhydrous solid at room temperature melts at