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Folks, Let’s see how Patty is recovering from her conflict with Hal Lindsay……. Patty saw a link on one of the daily SMT Tech newsletters that piqued her interest. It was titled, “A New Alloy

No todos los metales combinan bien. Y esto se traslada al mundo de la electrónica y los materiales utilizados en ella. Un ejemplo relativamente nuevo y relevante surgió con la llegada de la RoHS y la

Folks, It's been awhile, let's see what Patty is up to… Patty was in her office, finishing lunch and reading Golf Digest. She was happy to see Tiger Woods doing better, but a little

Here’s an interesting technology fact I just learned: Indium Sulfide was the very first indium compound to be discovered. I bet Reich and Richter (the discovers of indium) never imagined that

Folks, Let’s see how Patty is doing with her latest challenge….. Patty had decided to call The Professor and see what advice he had to offer in preparation for her visit to the facility

Amigos, veamos qué pasa con Patty........ Patty estaba sentada frente al ordenador, ciertamente un poco cansada. Acababa de regresar de unas vacaciones de una semana en Williamsburg con su familia.

Los procesos de bumping de obleas han evolucionado en los últimos 10 años. La industria de ensamblaje de semiconductores ha pasado de los procesos de bumping mediante impresión de pasta de soldadura (con todos sus problemas de voiding,

It is no secret that automotive semiconductor customers are becoming increasingly demanding. The “under the hood / bonnet” electronics environment is arguably one of the most thermally

NanoFoil®requires a threshold of energy to activate. What happens if that energy value is not met?: Interdiffusion and inhibition of the NanoBond® reaction. This can happen if NanoFoil®

Many surface finishes are solderable with the right flux. Many of our electronic devices use solder to bond copper, silver, gold, and other metals, but did you know that you can solder wooden

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 immersed in indium as we are. So what is indium? Of

Folks, In the category of interesting requests, Ron, a gold worker, from Guyana, sent me the following note: Dr. Ron, My colleagues use a “wet” gold technique to measure gold alloy

There are many sputtering target materials that are tricky to solder to. For those alloys we ‘bring out the big guns’ – in this case, our ultrasonic soldering

In order to NanoBond® parts that are made out of copper, nickel, or platinum, we must first apply solder to the bonding surface. This is most commonly done by melting solder directly onto the

Amigos, continuamos con nuestro análisis del modelo de Weibull… Supongamos que habéis trabajado duro y habéis montado unas placas de circuito impreso (PCB) sin plomo mediante SMT para someterlas a ensayos de ciclos térmicos. Habéis utilizado la mejor pasta de soldadura sin plomo,

Sometimes one piece of NanoFoil® just isn’t enough… We often NanoBond® sputtering targets which are large enough to require multiple sheets of NanoFoil® to cover the width or

Hand cutting is only one option for shaping NanoFoil®, however it is quick, easy, and inexpensive. All you need to cut NanoFoil® with this method is a good cutting surface, metal straight

Folks, In continuing our discussion on Weibull Analysis, let’s assume we assembled some SMT and through-hole PCBs with lead-free solder paste. On this board are also some bottom-side terminated

A few years back, Indium Corporation's own Eric Bastow set up a prototype NanoFoil® plating process to demonstrate the material and cost savings of setting up a small plating bath. One of the

One question that I often hear from customers is; “Once out of the refrigerator, how long do I have to wait to allow my solder paste and/or flux to reach room temperature in order to use

Hemos oído hablar del defecto de "grapado" de la pasta de soldadura, pero el mismo problema de oxidación se produce también en otras formas de soldadura, como las preformas de arandelas de soldadura utilizadas para unir pequeñas