Lead-Free Solder Pastes

Interconnect reliability is critical to the reliability of semiconductor packaging and electronic systems. If we look at the life cycle from the chip to the system—from IC design, wafer fab,

Folks, This post is an excerpt on graping, fromIndium Corporation'sThe Printed Circuits Assemblers Guide to Solder Defects. Introduction The growth of personal electronic devices continues to

Folks, Tin whiskers are very fine filaments or whiskers of tin that form out of the surface of the tin. See Figure 1. They are the result of stress release in the tin. Tin whiskers are a phenomenon

Folks, Happy Birthday RoHS! A milestone occurred, and it seemed to be missed:RoHS celebrated its 15th birthday on July 1st! For those new to electronics assembly, RoHS stands for Restriction of

Folks, I traveled to Penang, Malaysia to give a two-day workshop on Issues to be Resolved in SMT Assembly on August 7th and8th. The workshop was part of EPCON Asia 2018and was put on by The Knowledge

Folks, Pity Ötzi, The Iceman, circa 3500BC. It is believed that he was involved in copper smelting as both copper particles and arsenic, a trace element in some copper ores, were found in his

A little background, RoHS is a European Union law. It stands for restriction of hazardous substances. This law restricts a handful of chemicals in electronics. Most notably, for those of us in

Dr. Ronald C. Lasky: Indium Corporation's Ed Briggs had the great idea to write a paper on the many applications of solder preforms. He asked me to edit and review the paper; the title was The

Patty was walking to her office as she saw Professor Ulf Gabrielson pass by. "What an impressive older gent, " she thought. He had been a contender for a Nobel Prize a few decades ago and