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 ...
Solder Powder: IPC "Type" and Surface Area
Solder powder particle size and shape impacts the functionality of solder paste in many ways: printing/dispensing/dipping; solderballing; graping; voi...
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...
Lead-Free Consensus Update
Folks, In gathering information on the status of lead-free soldering, some helpful friends pointed out two great sources of information: NA...
Why doesn't my 80Au 20Sn solder look any thing like gold?
If you have ever handled a piece of 80Au 20Sn solder alloy, one of the things that......
Increased Use of Electricity for Lead-Free Soldering Assembly & High-Melt Lead-Free Solders
Folks, An obvious disadvantage of lead-free electronics soldering assembly is that the oven must be hotter and therefore will use more electricity (ve...
High Melting Pb-free Solder Paste
Dr Ning-Cheng Lee (Indium Corporation‘s Vice-President of Technology) just let me review his team’s excellent upcoming paper on solde...
Solder Wire
Solder wire is generally used for manual soldering operations, including rework. But, it can......
A New Low-Temperature Metallization Paste For Interconnecting Thin-Film Solar Cells
Last week I spent some time in the Advanced Materials and Process Development Lab with Eric Bastow, verifying the printing characteristics of our newe...
Tin-Silver (SnAg) Solder Alloy for Stringing and Bussing Solar Modules
Typical Tabbing Ribbon Solders img width="400" align="right" height="301" src="https://cdn2.content.compendium...