Solder in Medical Devices: That Solder’s Going Where?
Cardiac pacemakers generally use 99.99% Au preforms as the solder material in the assembly. Pure gold is highly pure, inert, biocompatible, has a high...
Hermetic Sealing
Indium Used to Seal Valuable Moon Samples
Indium was used to seal valuable samples that were transported to Earth from the moon....
Introduction to Capillary Blocks® for Brazing
Find out why they are the best braze choice for your hermetic sealing application....
Indium Gaskets
Indium metal is soft and pliable - perfect for gasketing. Learn how people put it to work for them....
The Impact of the Braze Furnace Profile has on Product Quality
Creating an airtight or hermetic seal is a critical-- and an especially challenging-- requirement for high-reliability packages. The 72Ag28Cu profile ...
Common and Useful Brazes For Power and RF Hermetic Package Assembly
72Ag28Cu, pure Ag, and OFHC Cu brazes are user friendly and provide excellent finished goods reliability. ...
Choosing the Right Gold Solder Alloy for Hermetic Package Sealing
Summary: Gold solder alloys are valuable due to their unique range of reflow temperatures and their resistance to corrosion, making them ideal for hig...
High Temperature Product offering for Laser and Optical package manufacturing
With Indium’s experience working with laser manufacturers, we know each manufacturer’s product is unique to the end use, so we have a numb...
Sealing Hermetic Packages?: Capillary Blocks® Increase Quality, Reduce Lead Times
In the past there were only two options, cut wire or frame preforms. Now there are Capillary Blocks®....
Innovative Braze Product for Hi-Rel Hermetic Package Manufacturing
Using Capillary Blocks® for hermetic package brazing....
The Magic of Engineered Solders
Engineered solders are solders that can make a HUGE difference with your thermal management, IGBT, die-attach, medical device, hermetic sealing, or co...
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...