Soldering to Wood
Many surface finishes are solderable with the right flux. Many of our electronic devices use solder to bond copper, silver, gold, and other metals, bu...
Solder Alloys
Why the World Needs SACm® Solder: improved shock resistance and thermal cycling performance in electronics assembly
As the world began transitioning to Pb-Free solder in the early 2000’s, the electronics industry determined that SAC387 (95.5Sn/3.8Ag/0.7Cu) was...
What Is Indium?
Being the Indium Corporation, we know what indium is, where it comes from, and how to use it. But sometimes we forget that not everyone is as im...
Wet Gold II: Measuring Gold Content in an Ore With Only a Scale
Folks, In my last post we saw how you could measure density with only a scale. In this post, we will expand on that technique and learn h...
Wet Gold: A Technique to Measure Density Without Knowing the Volume
Folks, In the category of interesting requests, Ron, a gold worker, from Guyana, sent me the following note: Dr. Ron, My colleagues use a “...
2013 SVC Presentation: A High Temperature, High-Strength, Pb-Free, Metallic Sputtering Target Bond using Reactive Multilayer NanoFoil
I’m not the only one presenting new NanoFoil® data at this year’s SVC (Society of Vacuum Coaters) Conference. Another member of o...
DIY: Applying Solder to Molybdenum, Titanium, and Tungsten (Ultrasonic Soldering)
There are many sputtering target materials that are tricky to solder to. For those alloys we ‘bring out the big guns’ – in this case...
DIY: Applying Solder to Copper, Nickel, and Platinum (Flux)
In order to NanoBond® parts that are made out of copper, nickel, or platinum, we must first apply solder to the bonding surface. This......
DIY: Applying Solder to Aluminum and Aluminum Alloys (Scrubbing)
Aluminum is a very common material to bond to, although it is a little tricky to solder to with traditional methods. The method that we......
Indium Experts at APEX EXPO 2013
The 2013 IPC APEX Expo , the premiere electronics assembly event, is right around the corner – and our technology experts are ready to share the...
DIY: Masking a NanoBond® Area
NanoFoil® is a great localized heat source, but it can cause some ugly looking aesthetic defects if the process is not set up correctly. Let̵...