Indium and Gallium: Playing Important Roles in LED Lighting and the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics
Folks, An important element of US energy independence is the reduction of energy use for lighting. While, in its day, the incandescent light was...
Folks, An important element of US energy independence is the reduction of energy use for lighting. While, in its day, the incandescent light was...
Folks, Looks like Patty has been busy….. Patty couldn’t remember having a busier week. She just got back on Friday from serving on ...
Folks, Let’s check in on Patty as she is about to wrestle with claims of a 10 Sigma Solder Paste Printing Process involving the world’s sm...
Folks, Suresh writes: Dear Dr. Ron: Can densities of less than 1 g/cc be measured with the “Wet Gold” technique? Well, to tell the truth, ...
Folks, As mentioned in the last post, it is a common problem with the PIP (pin-in-paste) process to struggle to get adequate solder volume. If ...
Folks, The pin-in-paste (PIP) process is often the best choice when the PCBA is a mixed SMT and through-hole board with a small number of thr...
Folks, A while ago, I developed an Excel-based spreadsheet, StencilCoach™, that calculates optimal stencil aperture parameters for several commo...
Folks, It surprises many people that the foundation metal of almost all solder alloys is tin. Alloy elements such as lead, silver, copper, indi...
Folks, We hear, on a regular basis, that the PC is dead or dying and will be replaced by the tablet. More recently, there is news that the...
Folks, Let’s check in on Patty….... Patty was intensely preparing a lecture on Bayes’ Theorem. She always felt that this theo...
Folks, let’s see how Patty is doing at Ivy U….. Patty had to admit that she really liked being a professor at Ivy University. No, t...
Folks, In the nearly ten years that I have been blogging, I am continually surprised by the interest in a spreadsheet I created that calculates alloy ...