SAC Solder Alloy Wets Well, It Just Doesn't Spread Well
Folks, I have often pointed out that SAC solder’s poor wetting is both a curse and Godsend. It is a curse when trying to fill ...
Folks, I have often pointed out that SAC solder’s poor wetting is both a curse and Godsend. It is a curse when trying to fill ...
Many, many thanks to the hundreds of you who came by the Indium Corporation booth at Semicon West this year. Some of you came to hear about ...
Folks, I met Peter Borgesen back in the mid 1980s when he was a research scientist at Cornell working with Professor Che-Yu......
Folks, Although a few have suggested that lead-free reliability is an oxymoron, currently most people that have studied the reliability of SAC3...
For reasons that I will discuss in a post later this year, a common factor that is emerging in the area of copper-pillar microbump 2.5D and 3D jo...
Folks, I have occasionally written on calculating solder alloy density, as there is surprisingly more interest than I thought there would be in ...
Included in a solder paste‘s Product Data Sheet, among other things, are general guidelines which aid the customer in designing a...
Solder starvation is a serious electronics assembly issue – with a very simple solution. Solder starvation occurs when adequate volumes of solde...
Unbeknowst to me, the refrigerator where I store my solder paste and fluxes that I use for SIR (Surface Insulation Resistance) testing was.....
Based on a recent post I published regarding the use of bismuth (Bi) in solder alloys, John writes: “If Bismuth comes from the production o...
There seems to be a growing trend to use a low-Ag or Ag-free solder alloy for Surface Mount Technology (SMT) electronics assembly, similar to what is ...