Lead-Free Soldering: Pluses and Minuses
Folks, I thought I would take a stab at listing the minuses, pluses, and “it’s a wash” aspects of assembling with lead-free (LF) sol...
Folks, I thought I would take a stab at listing the minuses, pluses, and “it’s a wash” aspects of assembling with lead-free (LF) sol...
ITO is one of the materials that makes the magic of flat panel displays (monitors, TVs, etc.) possible. When sputtered on in a thin layer, it act...
Folks, Back in October, I posted comments on lead-free reliability. In this post, I mentioned that I chaired a session at SMTAI on “...
I was asked this week to contribute to the upcoming IPC handbook (IPC-CH-65 HDBK) on the section on contamination and its effects on printed wiring as...
Conformal coating compatibility with no-clean flux residues has been a major topic for years – becoming even more popular recently with companie...
A quick trip to discuss roadmapping with one of the world’s top processor manufacturers, and a visit to discuss Pb-free power die-attach materia...
Folks, Technology: Always Advancing? I believe most of us think of technology as always advancing. A quick look at the evolution of mobile p...
It is always important, sometimes critical, to come off well when interviewed. Most often the interviewer is an industry (or larger) celebrity and the...
The “wave soldering flux deactivation temperature question” arises every few weeks, and the easy answer is that wave solder fluxes are des...