Indium Corporation's Dr. Ron Lasky, Senior Technologist, delivers an informative overview of the history of, and insight into the future use of, indium metal in a video available at indiumstg.wpenginepowered.com/blog/phil-zarrow.
As part of the Electronics Assembly with Phil Zarrow series, this video features Lasky and SMT expert Phil Zarrow, President and Principal Consultant for ITM Consulting, discussing historical and unique indium and indium alloy applications.
“Indium Corporation was the first company to find a practical use for indium in the 1930s, and that was for bearing lubricants in aircraft. It was used in solders and fusible alloys,” Lasky explains. “Today, one of the more interesting applications is that indium can be used as a superconductor, and it has a high nuclear cross-section for neutrons, so it's often used in nuclear control rods.”
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Dr. Lasky, holder of the prestigious SMTA Founder’s Award, is a world-renowned process expert and a Senior Technologist at Indium Corporation. He is also a Professor of Engineering and the Director of the Cook Engineering Design Center at Dartmouth College. He has more than 30 years of experience in electronics and optoelectronic packaging and assembly. Dr. Lasky has authored six books, and contributed to nine more on science, electronics, and optoelectronics. Additionally, he has served as an adjunct professor at several colleges, teaching more than 20 different courses on topics ranging from electronics packaging, materials science, physics, mechanical engineering and science, and religion. Dr. Lasky holds numerous patent disclosures and is the developer of several SMT processing software products relating to cost estimating, line balancing, and process optimization. He is the co-creator of engineering certification exams that set standards in the electronics assembly industry, worldwide. Dr. Lasky also authors a technology blog, which can be found at indiumstg.wpenginepowered.com/drlasky.
Zarrow si occupa di produzione e assemblaggio di PCB da oltre 35 anni. Oltre al suo background nell'assemblaggio e nella pulizia automatizzati, Zarrow è riconosciuto per la sua esperienza nella tecnologia di saldatura a riflusso a montaggio superficiale e nella progettazione e implementazione di apparecchiature di posizionamento SMT e sistemi di saldatura a riflusso. La sua vasta esperienza pratica comprende anche la messa a punto e la risoluzione dei problemi dei processi a foro passante e SMT in tutto il mondo.
Indium Corporation è uno dei principali produttori e fornitori di materiali per i mercati globali dell'elettronica, dei semiconduttori, dei film sottili, della gestione termica e del solare. I prodotti includono saldature e flussanti, brasature, materiali per interfacce termiche, bersagli per sputtering, metalli e composti inorganici di indio, gallio, germanio e stagno e NanoFoil®. Fondata nel 1934, Indium dispone di un'assistenza tecnica globale e di stabilimenti situati in Cina, Malesia, Singapore, Corea del Sud, Regno Unito e Stati Uniti.
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