Cold Welding Indium Metal
Indium metal has the unique ability to cold weld (bond) to itself at room temperature. Though this is, technically, not soldering, this property makes...
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Indium Alloys for Soldering to Gold
Here is a question that was received and answered on our website almost a decade ago – but it is still quite relevant: p......
Tombstoning: The Death of a PCBA
Tombstoning (also known as the Manhattan effect, drawbridge effect, or Stonehenge effect) is described (in the simplest, and most common, sense) as oc...
Hand Soldering Recommendations for Solar Module Assembly
Here is a list of tricks to help you overcome the issues that can arise while hand soldering silicon-based solar cells (and other applications as well...
Patty Seeks the Ultimate Electronics Assembly Productivity Metric
Folks, Let’s look in on Patty…... Patty was just finishing a report on work that she and Pete had performed with a team of her ACME colle...
Peel Testing Adhesion of Metallization Paste
This is a short video demonstrating how easy it is for you to perform a quick peel test on a metallization and demonstrate its adhesion to a thin-film...
Solder Paste Expiration / Shelf Life
Solder paste is comprised of powdered solder alloy suspended in a flux vehicle. There is a group of flux ingredients that is generically identified as...
Statistics: How Unusual is the New Orleans 0-11 Coin Toss Loss?
Folks, In addition to electronics assembly productivity, solder paste and solder preform applications, and other electronics assembly concerns, many o...
SMTA Guadalajara Chapter Kick Off Meeting
Folks, The Guadalajara (GDL), MX Chapter of the SMTA held their first meeting on November 9 and 10 at CETI in GDL. Approximately 70 engineers from......
Authenticity in B2B Marcom
Your audience doesn't want to read stuff from a person who is fishing around for things that customers want to read about. The people that trul...
Solder Paste and Flux Dip Depth: II
Following on from our discussions of last time... As you will recall from the previous post on this topic, My friend and colleague Chris Nash and I w...