An Interview on 3D-MID technology with Nouhad Bachnak of Cicor
About a month ago I posted about the various 3D technologies (chip creation, packaging and printed circuit boards) that are being used to op...
Solder Alloys
High Melting Point Flux Core Wire Solder
It won’t be long until we in the northern hemisphere are complaining about the snow and the cold, but right now, it is all about the heat! ...
Improved Solder Density and Solder Paste Volume Fraction Tool
Folks, It is hard to believe that I have been blogging for over 7 years now. In all this time it has surprised me how much interest there has be...
Indium Gallium Physical Properties Stretch The Limits
Individually, indium and gallium each have some pretty interesting characteristics. Gallium is liquid at 30°C (86°F) and, because it is less t...
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 ...
Musings on Electronics Assembly Metals: Gold Unified a Country
Folks, In Ken Burn’s excellent miniseries The Civil War, Shelby Foote states that the Civil War made us a country by uniting No...
India WEEE/RoHS Is Here! Compliments Of The Government of India, Ministry of Environment & Forests
Indian electronics manufacturers and solder users. This info is for you. After many years of discussion and policy making, the Indian Government rolle...
The Miracle of Soldering
Folks, Pity the copper age smelter of 3000BC. He had to get his wood fire to 1085°C to smelt or melt copper, sometimes he couldn’t get...
Indium Corporation Tabbing Flux Performance
I was recently asked to gather some data comparing Indium Corporation’s tabbing fluxes and our largest competitor’s leading tabbing fluxes...
How Low is Low Temperature in Soldering?
Do you ever have a need for a “low temperature” solder (meaning an alloy that melts at less than 175C)? You may have delicate components t...
Indium-Lead (In/Pb) Solder Alloys for Reliable Gold Interconnects in Semiconductor Assembly
Maria Durham, Indium’s new Technical Specialist in Semiconductor and Advanced Assembly Materials, has been doing some research on indium lead (I...
Musings on Metals: Copper
Musings on Metals: Copper It could be argued that civilization began with the smelting of copper. Although thousands of years before, humans fir...