Burn-in and Test Strategies Workshop a Success for Indium Corporation
You don't always know how trade shows are going to go. Will you have the right message? Will it be the right audience? ...
Burn In
BiTS Workshop 2018
If you are looking for the latest information on semiconductor burn-in and test materials, visit us at BiTS Expo 2018....
High-Performance Metal Thermal Interface Options for Burn-In
Indium is the best metal thermal interface material for these reasons:...
Solder Technology Inside A Hot Car On A Sunny Summer Day
Here’s a true story regarding the service temperature of solder joints. Yesterday, as I left work, I noticed that it felt really hot outside. I ...
Preheating Part V - Quartz Plate
We continue our discussion of solder reflow methods. As the name suggests, quartz plate preheaters have thick quartz plates in which the heating eleme...
Fluxers Part I - Foam: Wave Soldering (A Segmented Synopsis) Post #3
A wave solder machine’s foam fluxer is a device in which compressed air is fed through a porous tube (commonly referred......
NanoFoil® Scrap Handling Suggestions
Let’s start with a bit of fiction to get us on the same page… Mike is working with NanoFoil®, getting ready to bond a small, round, p...
Electronics Failure Analysis for Pb- and Pb-Free Solder Joints
Folks, The Weibull distribution is arguably the most important distribution in failure analysis of leaded and lead-free solder joints. ...
High Melting Point Flux Core Wire Solder
It won’t be long until we in the northern hemisphere are complaining about the snow and the cold, but right now, it is all about the heat! ...
Cleaning No-Clean Solder Paste Residues in SMT Assembly
Folks, There is a lot of interest in cleaning PCBs that have been assembled with no-clean solder pastes. Recently I discussed the topic with my ...
Musings on Electronics Assembly Metals: Gold Unified a Country
Folks, In Ken Burn’s excellent miniseries The Civil War, Shelby Foote states that the Civil War made us a country by uniting No...
Musings on Metals: Copper
Musings on Metals: Copper It could be argued that civilization began with the smelting of copper. Although thousands of years before, humans fir...