Cleaning No-Clean Solder Paste Residues in SMT Assembly
Folks, There is a lot of interest in cleaning PCBs that have been assembled with no-clean solder pastes. Recently I discussed the topic with my ...
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Lead-Free Electronics Assembly Using the SMT Process - at PCM
Folks, Struggling to find a good, royalty-free, video of electronics assembly, my Dartmouth ENGM 185 class on manufacturing processes decided t...
锡膏印刷速度的一个小故事 A Story of Solder Paste Printing Speed
SMT: A Story of Solder Paste Printing Speed 近期我们有一个客户在解决一&#...
锡膏和底部填充剂的兼容性 (Solder Paste Compatiblity with Underfill in SMT)
在SMT中，底部填充剂(underfill) 常常被用在BGA/QPN 的组装...
Void Reduction in Solder Joints
It is often said that a chain is only as strong as it weakest link, the same can be true for a series of......
Military/Aerospace Lead-Free Solder Reliability Still Unproven
Folks, I’m taking a few moments from Wassail Weekend , held annually in my village, Woodstock VT, “The prettiest small town in Americ...
Tombstoning: The Death of a PCBA
Tombstoning (also known as the Manhattan effect, drawbridge effect, or Stonehenge effect) is described (in the simplest, and most common, sense) as oc...
Solder Paste and Flux Dip Depth: II
Following on from our discussions of last time... As you will recall from the previous post on this topic, My friend and colleague Chris Nash and I w...
Solder Paste and Flux Dip Depth: I
My friend and colleague Chris Nash and I were recently discussing some puzzling results for low dip height found during testing of package-on-pac...
QFN Reliability in SMT Electronics Assembly
Folks, Let’s look in on Rob: Rob looked at the new photo of Patty and their twin sons Peter and Michael. What a handful those two 18 month-...
Soldering: an Indian Engineer's Perspective!
Hi there! I am excited, this is my first blog post -ever. I am excited that it is a technical blog of Indium Corporation. My story is very ...
Tin and Silver Use in Electronics after RoHS
Folks, In a recent posting we discussed that the higher melting temperatures of lead-free solder require reflow soldering temperatures to be higher, t...