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Do you have interesting pictures of a solar installation, solar cells, or solar module assembly that you'd like to share? Do you have a really specialized application that you want the world to

HubSpotis a great company, and an excellent resource for helping get the most out of social media – especially blogging. Recently they were gracious enough toask me a few questions in an

Folks, I posted this a while back. The solutions are in red. Suppose you need to select a consultant or verify the qualifications of some of your staff to perform designed experiments (DOE),

I had the great fortune to be invited by Ellis Booker to participate in today's BtoB Magazine's (btobonline's)NetMarketing Breakfast in Manhattan. Sitting on the panel with me were three

If you are like me, when you hear the term "whammy" you think back to the 80's game show called Press Your Luck. The electronics assembly industry is converging on what I like to call

A more experienced engineer than myself offered a bit of advice for wafer bump plating with indium: “Electroplating using the indium sulfamate plating bath is one method of

As a discussion point (read "please feel free to disagree – that's what the comments section is for"), 96.5%Sn/3.5%Ag is NOT the most well suited pb-free alloy for tabbing. I know

21 Things You Can Do, Right Now, To Enhance Your B2B Marcom Compliments of the2009 Annual BMA Conference For the past year we've been in, what many feel, was the era of "Doom and

I’ve always said that you learn twice as much when you are instructing – well today I had the opportunity to learn. A colleague here at Indium wanted to learn more about the assembly of

Solder thickness is important whether you are interested in tabbing ribbon, bus ribbon, or (most likely) both types of PV interconnect materials. In almost all tabbing/stringing applications, the

I thank my friend,John Favalo, for hooking me up with this

Folks, the adventures of The Professor continue……… So far the meeting with The Professor had proven very valuable John thought.He was anxious to hear the other suggestions that The

This is something you may have run into if you’ve ever manually dipped and placed PoP components. Yesterday while trying to hold a conversation about the package-on-package process, I lost

Bus ribbon is a very specialized interconnect for photovoltaic modules. Much like tabbing ribbon, bus ribbon is made of a copper ribbon or flat wire which is coated in solder. The solder protects the

Indium Corporation (I say "Indium Corporation": it's actually me and my colleague Tim Jensen) is in the middle of drafting a position statement on halogen-free electronics and

Fans of the Semiconductor Packaging Blog will realize that marketing charts are a strange sight on this blog. However, I thought I would share something that I found in a recent report from the

You may notice that many of the solar grade fluxes and solder pastes are designated 'no-clean'. This classification is used to describe a flux or flux vehicle that does not need to be removed

Fact: To achieve a strong, reliable solder joint, it is important to remove all oxides from the substrate as well as the solder. Generally this is done using a compatible flux. Reality: Sometimes

Folks, The continuation of The Professor's second visit to ACME…… "Well what should we do Professor?" John said weakly. "Clearly, not shut the line down over the lunch

(Follows this post) Microsphere quality is especially important for bumping wafers. The dimensional tolerance of microspheres impacts the bump co-planarity across a wafer surface. In short, more

An area of concern for implementing indium as a thermal interface material has been its susceptibility to corrosion attack in humid conditions.Little information has been available regarding the