Thermal Management Using Indium Metal: The Heat-Spring®
High performance thermal management requires high performance materials. In this case, Heat-Spring®...
Thermal Interface Materials
Benefits of Using Preforms for Thermal Applications
Phil Zarrow: Seth, let’s discuss Indium Corporation’s thermal interface materials a bit. Seth Homer: Sure. Indium Corporation produces ...
Tim Jensen Discusses Becoming Co-Editor with Maria Durham for Advancing Electronics Magazine
Recently I heard about two of my friends (and co-workers) taking on an additional responsibility in the electronics industry. Tim Jensen (Senior Produ...
Applying Solder Preforms – Compression
Most people think of our alloys only in the ‘soldering’ sense. However, these same materials may be used in applications where they aren&r...
Design Solutions for Engineered Solders
Today’s technology simplifies the translation of an idea into a design. A drawing can be dimensioned in an instant. Thermal models and str...
IMAPS 2013: International Symposium on Microelectronics
The 46th International Symposium on Microelectronics will be held in Orlando, Florida, September 30th through October 3rd, 2013. I will be attending b...
NanoFoil® for CPV Attachment
The attachment of concentrated photovoltaic (CPV) cells is the perfect application for NanoFoil®. Due to the isolated heating during bonding, less...
Coefficient of Thermal Expansion
When dealing with bonding, we often mention CTE (Coefficient of Thermal Expansion). This is a very important topic when designing a soldered interface...
Thermal conductivity of NanoFoil®
A NanoBond® acts like a traditional solder bond in many ways. After reaction, the bulk properties of NanoFoil® are similar to that of many sol...
NanoFoil® as a Thermal Interface Material
NanoFoil® has many uses, and, sometimes, it has more than one function in an application. For instance, if tin coated NanoFoil® is......
Happy Birthday Indium Corporation!
March 13th is the 78th anniversary of the founding of Indium Corporation. Dr. William S. Murray, J. Robert Dyer JR, and Daniel Gray combined to ...
Patty Presents Her Electronics Assembly Copy Exactly Strategy
Folks, Patty is getting ready for her meeting on “Copy Exactly” with Mike Madigan….... It was after 6:30 PM and Patty was just arri...