Lead-Free Soldering: Pluses and Minuses
Folks, I thought I would take a stab at listing the minuses, pluses, and “it’s a wash” aspects of assembling with lead-free (LF) sol...
Folks, I thought I would take a stab at listing the minuses, pluses, and “it’s a wash” aspects of assembling with lead-free (LF) sol...
Folks, Technology: Always Advancing? I believe most of us think of technology as always advancing. A quick look at the evolution of mobile p...
A quick trip to discuss roadmapping with one of the world’s top processor manufacturers, and a visit to discuss Pb-free power die-attach materia...
The “wave soldering flux deactivation temperature question” arises every few weeks, and the easy answer is that wave solder fluxes are des...
This week a customer in Asia asked why one of our new epoxy fluxes was not allowing the package-on-package (PoP) device to be picked up from the dippi...
I just received a customer inquiry regarding a phenomenon that is little studied and even less quantified; “How many times can I reflow a s...
Folks, Before the mid 2000s, electronics manufacturers had to be concerned with the challenges of innovation at a low cost. Failure to meet the...
Folks, Patty had been working with engineering on a new product that needed a very precise and controlled volume of the stencil printed “brick&...
Jon major recently joined the Indium Corporation as a Product Manager for Solar back-end assembly products. I greeted him with this impromptu int...
Tombstoning, simply, is the wetting of one side of a component before the other side, which causes the setting forces of the solder to lift the compon...
Since I couldn’t find a good beginners guide to c-Si metallization paste, (not even......
Folks, Let’s assume you are trying to improve the productivity of your SMT assembly lines. You work at a facility that manufactures high v...