Indium Ingot
I clearly remember the first time I saw indium ingots. I had only been employed at Indium Corporation a few days. Outside an alloying room I noticed a...
Indium Alloy
Solder 101: Forms of Indium Metal
People use indium in many forms – to create many different products. Certain forms fit various applications. Here are some of the many forms of ...
Bi/Sn/Ag: The Perfect Tabbing Ribbon Coating Solder Alloy?
Let’s quickly review the advantages of Bi/Sn/Ag alloy tabbing ribbon coating before we discuss them further: Low temperature melting point Pb-fr...
Calculating Solder Paste Usage
Many people try to determine the volume of solder paste that they will use on a given circuit board or during a full production run. Calculating...
IMAPS 2013: International Symposium on Microelectronics
The 46th International Symposium on Microelectronics will be held in Orlando, Florida, September 30th through October 3rd, 2013. I will be attending b...
Manufacturing Indium with Pride
I recently caught up with Brent Boek, Supervisor of the indium cell at our Utica Business Park manufacturing facility in New York. Brent and his crew ...
High Temperature (Braze Alloy) Sputtering Target Bonding, with NanoFoil®
In an earlier post I mentioned one of the presentations we gave at the 2013 SVC TechCon. The other presentation that our team delivered at t...
Interesting Indium and Gallium Video
A visitor at our booth during the 2013 SVC (Society of Vacuum Coaters) conference suggested this video. In the video, a piece of indium is rubbed agai...
Thermal Cycling Performance of SACm® Pb-Free Solder Alloy
The development of SACm® lead-free solder alloy by Indium Corporation’s R&D team was focused around improving the mechanical shock perfo...
Drop Test Performance of SACm® Pb-Free Solder Alloy
As I discussed in my last post, the industry has found that reducing the silver content of SAC alloys helps to improve its mechanical shock performanc...
Why the World Needs SACm® Solder: improved shock resistance and thermal cycling performance in electronics assembly
As the world began transitioning to Pb-Free solder in the early 2000’s, the electronics industry determined that SAC387 (95.5Sn/3.8Ag/0.7Cu) was...
Wet Gold: A Technique to Measure Density Without Knowing the Volume
Folks, In the category of interesting requests, Ron, a gold worker, from Guyana, sent me the following note: Dr. Ron, My colleagues use a “...