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The Infamous Cell Phone
Unquestionably one of the largest technology drivers in the last decade, the cell phone continues to challenge our industry by never being quite good ...
Engineered Solders with a European Flavour
Alan Fairbairn Guest Blogger European Business Development Manager Engineered Solders Materials I hope I can bring a European flavour to Engine...
How Low Can You Go?
Due to the limitations of flux, there is bottom end temperature where traditional solder/flux bonding ends. The lowest temperature I have experienced ...
Indium Corporation: founded in Utica, NY - "The City That Loves Refugees"
Today the Indium Corporation enjoys a rich global texture. With facilities and teammates in Milton Keynes, UK; Jurong, Singapore; Suzhou, Shenzhen, &a...
Thermal Interface Materials for Extreme Conditions
The most common metal thermal interface materials are made from indium alloys which melt between 100C to 200C. Some power devices I have come across d...
Why Solder To Steel When You Can Solder To Copper?
Okay, this has no use for semiconductor packaging that I know of, but it is a neat trick that I discovered in the lab a couple days ago. ......
Package-on-Package Process; an interview with Jim Hisert
Package-on-Package (PoP) use in the SMT process is slowly creeping from a niche application into mainstream use. From experience, I know that s...
B2B Marcom Expertise
Indium Corporation’s Dr. Ronald Lasky is a highly-educated, very experienced electronics assembly process & materials expert. We are lucky t...
RoHS Cost Pegged at $32 Billion
Folks, Circuitnet recently had a posting stating that RoHS has cost industry, and hence we the consumer $32 billion. I’d say that’s about ...
Head-in-Pillow Defects 4: Material Issues
Head-in-pillow defects related to solder paste or flux performance are classified as Materials Issues. These include poor transfer efficiency on stand...
The Speed of Simplicity
With only 24 hours to answer a customer regarding a strange flux / alloy / surface finish / temperature compatibility, we had no time to have an exoti...