Addressing a Defect of Poor wetting and Non-Spread of Solder Preforms
We’ve heard about the solder paste “graping” defect, but the same oxidation challenge occurs in other solder forms as well, such as ...
Solder Preforms
Where is Tin Silver Solder, Now That You Need It?
Over the years, solder alloy choices have been pretty stable. In the last century, SN63 and SN62 could be found at any company making any k...
Special Cause and Common Cause Variation and Knob Twiddling
Folks, It’s been a while. Let’s look in on Patty…... Patty stared, bleary eyed, at her laptop screen. It was the day after th...
How to Solder a Wire to a Pad
It seems like a fairly simple thing to do. What could be difficult about soldering a wire to a pad? Well, I hear three common complaints a...
First Visible Light LED Turns 50!
It is hard to believe, but 50 years ago, on October 9th, the first visible light LED was demonstrated by Nick Holonyak, Jr. of GE Advanced......
Adding Solder to a NanoBond® Assembly
One of the biggest misconceptions about NanoFoil® is that it is a form of solder. While it may contain a solder coating if specified (usually tin)...
Solder Paste/Preform Bond Line Thickness
When helping customers with the optimization of their soldering process, the question often comes up; “What will my solder bond line thickn...
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...
Good Reads
Folks, If you need to take a break from topics such as solder paste, solder preforms, tin whiskers, indium TIMs etc, there are a few books I would r...
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...
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...