Effect of Particle Size on Solder Paste (Part I)
A well-respected colleague asked this week if the metal loading of type ‘4’ solder powder in a paste was lower than that for type ‘3...
A well-respected colleague asked this week if the metal loading of type ‘4’ solder powder in a paste was lower than that for type ‘3...
Folks, Amid predictions of disaster RoHS was enacted 3 years ago on 1 July 2006. The sky was going to fall…....it never did. ...
Greenpeace has just updated their “Guide to Greener Electronics.“ There are a couple of interesting tibdits that I took from their r...
Brandon Judd and I have been working on a paper for this year’s SMTAI event, and I thought I......
A colleague in California was on the phone last week: “We need a flux with greater activity!” He said. Choking down comments like “M...
Tin Whiskers growing between pure tin-plated hook terminals of an electromagnetic relay. Image courtesy of nepp.nasa.gov ......
Most of you have probably seen videos of countless Mentos/Diet Coke experiments all over the internet. If you are one of the few who have not, t...
In my twenty years in the electronics manufacturing industry, I have heard a lot of claims made about the use of nitrogen in inerted soldering ...
Something that seems counter-intuitive to many customers, yet seems obvious to a rheologist is why the percent metal loading of solder paste vari...
A passage from Metals Handbook, Volume 6, 1983Ӕ According to the Encarta Dictionary that......
Do you have interesting pictures of a solar installation, solar cells, or solar module assembly that you’d like to share?span......
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 electroni...