Metal Loading in Solder Paste - A Review (Part 1)
Three IPC test methods are used to guarantee to customers that they are getting the same material (within agreed tolerances). However o...
Three IPC test methods are used to guarantee to customers that they are getting the same material (within agreed tolerances). However o...
Folks, Some years ago, a leading IC manufacturer decided that their R&D effort could benefit if analyzed for possible improvement – by hirin...
Ronnie Spraker is the supervisor of our NanoFoil® production department. Everyday, Ronnie and his team make reactive foils that are used all over ...
Interesting question from a Chinese die-attach customer this week asking about volume resistivity of solder. My friend, Eric Bastow, suggested that In...
You may remember that, a couple of years ago, I wrote an article for Chip Scale Review magazine about plans for a major semiconductor facility (the Ma...
I recently caught up with Brent Boek, Supervisor of the indium cell at our Utica Business Park manufacturing facility in New York. Brent and his crew ...
It is no secret that automotive semiconductor customers are becoming increasingly demanding. The “under the hood / bonnet” electronics env...
Browse the coming attractions at your local movie theater. How many 3D movies are being advertised? 3D is a very exciting technology for m...
Folks, In Ken Burn’s excellent miniseries The Civil War, Shelby Foote states that the Civil War made us a country by uniting No...
One of the things that bring customers over to our semiconductor tradeshow booths, year after year, is the pictorial roadmap. This is the diagram ...
Indium metal has the unique ability to cold weld (bond) to itself at room temperature. Though this is, technically, not soldering, this property makes...
At the time of writing, the price of silver (Ag) was approaching the USD$50/tr.oz. (Troy ounce) level, and threatening to go higher. With 1 Troy ounce...