Best and Worst Times to Use Robotic Soldering
When are the most and least appropriate situations to use robotic soldering, versus other soldering techniques?...
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The New Generation of Soldering
The word ‘robot’ has acquired somewhat of a bad reputation in the manufacturing industry, just as the word 'automobile' was terrif...
Nano-Ag Sintering Paste
Learn what porosity and pressure mean to silver sintering materials in electronics assembly. ...
Voiding in Electronics Assemblies: Causes & Mitigation
Learn how to reduce voiding in electronics assemblies through the use of proper process and materials. ...
Overcoming the Challenges Associated with Halogen-Free Solder Paste in SMT Electronics Assembly
If you are considering halogen-free solder paste or flux, this video is helpful. ...
SMT Processes Certification
Indium Corporation's Marketing Communications Specialist Colleen Bierstine discusses SMT Processes Certification with the creators of the SMT Proc...
No-Clean vs. Water Soluble Solder Paste
This video is for people weighing the use of no clean versus water-soluble solder paste formulation. It discusses examples of the need for cleaning, i...
No-Clean vs. Water Soluble Solder Paste
This video is for people weighing the use of no clean versus water-soluble solder paste formulation. It discusses examples of the need for cleaning, i...
Design Solutions for Engineered Solders
This video is for people considering engineered solder fabrications. It discusses how to specify a solder alloy, solder preform tooling considerations...
Electrical, Thermal, and Mechanical Reliability of Electronics Assembly
This video is for people who are manufacturing increasingly, miniaturized assemblies and facing thermal, and/or mechanical drop shock challenges. It w...
SMTA International 2015, One Month Away!!!
SMTA International 2015 is just around the corner. If you want to see what our engineers will be presenting at the show check out this blog; there is ...
Graphene: An Unlikely Candidate to Replace ITO in Flat Panel Displays
Folks, Let’s check in on Rob, while Patty is away…… Rob waved good bye to Patty as she drove away to the airport to attend a one w...
Specifying Solder Preforms - Getting an Indium Corporation Applications Engineer Involved
Many of us technical type people bypass asking for help if we can get along without it. Regarding the cliché of the person who keeps traveling ...
Applying Solder Preforms – Regional Tech Support On Site
One of the best parts of working with Indium Corporation is the application assistance you will get as a customer. Most people wouldn’t think mu...
Who Makes Your Solder Preforms?
This year I’ve had the chance to work, and become friends, with Bryan Dygert, one of our solder preform manufacturing work cell operators at the...
A Look Inside SMTA Certification with Tim Hults
Indium Corporation’s newest Global Accounts technical service engineer, Tim Hults, recently earned his SMTA Process Certification. Indium Corpor...
Hard Work, Experience, and Dedication
Overcoming the challenges we face in a production environment is accomplished in many ways. Ideas may be generated during a high-level brainstorming e...
Donuts and Solder Preforms – Seriously?
I just can’t get enough of a good thing. My last post mentioned donuts – one of my favorite treats. Allow me to continue reveling in...
A New Focus for 2014
The beginning of 2014 brought an interesting opportunity for me, the availability of a position as a Manufacturing Engineer at Indium Corporation (at ...
Best of 2013: NanoFoil®, Tabbing Ribbon, Metals & Compounds, and Great People
Thank you to all of the readers who have followed Indium Corporation’s blog posts this year, and a special “thank you” to all the re...
Indium Solder Paste
Indium metal powder is mixed with flux for application by dispensing or printing equipment. This mixture is referred to as solder paste. Lucky fo...
Ronnie Spraker and the World’s Only NanoFoil®/NanoBond® Production Team
Ronnie Spraker is the supervisor of our NanoFoil® production department. Everyday, Ronnie and his team make reactive foils that are used all over ...
The End of the Day: The Indium Way
It feels so good at the end of the day to know you have accomplished great things. For me, it’s the feeling of solving a problem, finding the pe...
Tech Spotlight: Ed Briggs
Ed knows how Indium’s products are made, and how to help you get the most out of them. Back in 1990, Ed began his journey with Indium Corporatio...
Conozca el bloguero más nuevo de Indium Corporation
Hola mi nombre es Iván Castellanos y me es muy grato presentarme ante ustedes por parte de Indium Corporation blog en español. Este blog...
Tech Spotlight: Chris Nash
As a member of Indium’s Technical Support Team, Chris Nash has always gravitated towards special projects. It is fitting that he now works on th...
Tech Spotlight: Brandon Judd
Brandon is the Technical Support Engineer for the Southwest (U.S.) and Rocky Mountain regions, he is also one of my best friends. Brandon and I have s...
Tech Spotlight: Eric Bastow
Eric is a Senior Tech Support Engineer, and he’s one of the guys I turn to when I receive really tricky questions. He has a great deal of experi...
Tech Spotlight: Mario Scalzo
When I started at The Indium Corporation, Mario showed me around the NY facilities. Since then, Mario has been the go-to trainer for our new technical...
Tech Spotlight: Maria Durham
While not directly part of Indium Corporation’s Technical Service department, Maria is technology driven and works with our customers to help se...
New Developments in Semiconductor Materials
In the past, Jim Hisert has worked very closely with the semiconductor products as an applications engineer. But now, as the product specialist for th...
¼ of My Life at Indium
Today I realized I have been with Indium Corporation ¼ of my life. So, I openly ponder: what does this mean to me? Well, first of all, I am luc...
Tech Spotlight: Derrick Herron
Today we focus on Derrick Herron – one of the newest members of Indium Corporation’s Technical Services team. While new to tech servi...
Solder Materials for Jewelry and Other Arts
One thing I have always enjoyed about Indium Corporation is that we strive to provide each customer the same level of service – whether they pla...
Hope For The Future Of The Solar Industry
It seems so many good men and women Have given a part of their lives To an industry waiting to grow An industry waiting to prosper ...
Manufacturing Indium with Pride
I recently caught up with Brent Boek, Supervisor of the indium cell at our Utica Business Park manufacturing facility in New York. Brent and his crew ...
Sputtering Targets for CIGS Cell Production
Few CIGS (copper indium gallium (di)selenide) cell manufacturers jump right to depositing the active CIG layer with a full-size rotary copper-indium-g...
NanoFoil® Project Management with Seth Homer
In an interview with Seth Homer (our Asst. Product Manager for Engineered Solders and NanoFoil®), we discuss how an interested customer can partne...
The Indium Way
Earlier this month we had a few days off for Independence Day (the 4th of July). While I relaxed at home, thoughts of Indium Corporation come to mind,...
RoHS Recast Includes Medical Devices
Folks, I was at the St Guadens National Historical Park a few days ago. Augustus St Guadens is considered by many to be America’s pre...
Homogeneous CIG Powder
One of the most common misconceptions about CIG powder is that it is made up of individual copper particles, indium particles, and gallium particles.b...
NanoBond® is a Fluxless Process
Fluxes are an interesting element of working with many solder applications. With so many specialized fluxes there is usually a perfectly-tailored flux...
We Use NanoFoil®
One of our most demanding customers is … the Indium Corporation! While we supply the world with NanoFoil®, we also use a large amount for t...
Metal Cost Drives Solder Alloy Decisions
Because of the volatility of the metals market, the price of traditional SAC solders has been somewhat unpredictable. The chart below plots the price ...
The Rewards of Challenging Work
A professor told me (on many occasions), “work smart, not hard”. Although he had good intentions, he was not a great mentor – as eve...
Die Cutting NanoFoil®, High Volume Part Singulation
Here at Indium Corporation we use punch presses to die cut NanoFoil® for our NanoFoil® research kits. We use this equipment to singulate the m...
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...
Indium: HIgh Technology Metal
There have been a variety of people who were key to the development of indium metal in general, and Indium Corporation in particular, over the ye...
Blog Post #415
Today I thought I’d take a break from talking about soldering materials for a minute to reflect on how we arrived at Blog Post #415. Back......
Back to Germany for PVSEC 2012
The 27th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition is back in Germany again this year. I’m looking forward to seeing my frien...
Solar Vehicles to be Produced Near Indium Corporation Headquarters
I received some interesting news last week: a company that produces solar powered electric pontoon boats has moved their operation from Canada to Rome...
Blogging Success
When I began blogging for Indium Corporation, I was unsure what value I could really add for our readers. Sure I could discuss technical topics, but w...
Dirk Schade of XYZTEC and Indium Corporation Scientists
I’ve presented in front of our Indium Corporation research scientists before – it can be downright intimidating to comprehend the brain po...
Indium Corporation Is 3rd-Best!!!
Yes, we came in 3rd … and we couldn’t be prouder. Indium Corporation’s headquarters, and several of our facilities, are in the Utic...
Distinguish Yourself Using B2B Marcom: The Purple Bag Story
I walked into my office and there it was: a purple bag. THE purple bag! I knew exactly what it was – and it brought a smile to my face. In fact,...
B2B Marcom ROCKS!
The Indium Corporation hosts many high school and college job shadow students, interns, and the like. We enjoy every aspect of it. We gain valuable in...
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 Supply Will Satisfy Demand For 75 Years
As reported in Metals Bulletin, Malcolm Harrower of Indium Corporation recently addressed the topic of indium availability and supply as he told the d...
Soldering Materials & Processes: Advice From Our Technical Library
Looking for tech papers that answer the most basic soldering questions? These rank among our most frequently downloaded: Five Solder Families and......
CHANGE: Keep Growing Your B2B Marcom Strengths
Ultimately, our business-to-business marcom skills, capabilities, execution, and growth boil down to people. When we’re vibrant, progressive, an...
Recycling Solder Dross
Anyone who has used wave soldering to assemble PCBs knows about that chunky layer of metal that collects on the smooth surface of the molten solder.&n...
Soldering: an Indian Engineer's Perspective!
Hi there! I am excited, this is my first blog post -ever. I am excited that it is a technical blog of Indium Corporation. My story is very ...
Happy Birthday RoHS!
Folks, It was five years ago today that RoHS was launched, amid concerns that the world of electronics would collapse due to the......
Indium Corporation at Semicon West 2011
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 ...
Indium Solar: A New Booth Location at Intersolar 2011
On behalf of our solar PV team here at Indium Corporation, I’d like to mention how excited we are to see you at span style="color:......
The Secret Life of Engineers (Part 2 - Travel)
I always imagined being an engineer would require me to sit in front of the same computer, in the same......
Engineering Functions and the Secret Life of Engineers
A few weeks ago Brandon Judd and I had an opportunity to show 4 middle/high school students what it is like to be an engineer. In preparation, we deci...
Moving from Silver Epoxy to Solder in Power Semiconductor Packaging
At the time of writing, the price of silver (Ag) was approaching the USD$50/tr.oz. (Troy ounce) level, and threatening to go higher. With 1 Troy ounce...