Be Creative
Bucket Man is probably my favorite drummer of all time. He puts on a great show, he’s a down-to-earth guy, and he uses what he has around him......
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Soldering to Aluminum
Soldering to aluminum is the opposite of soldering to gold; both difficult and simple to solder to do. Whereas soldering to gold can use almost any fl...
Video On Web: "The Ultimate Frontier"?
CREATIVITY Magazine’s website offers up an excellent article titled, It’s Time To Picture A New Web, written by Gary Shenk, CEO of Corbis....
Package-on-Package Spacers
I’m going to let the PoP Interconnect Spacers data sheet do the technical explanation here, but I’ve gotta say these spacers have quite a ...
Soldering to Gold
Soldering to gold may be both the easiest and most difficult type of soldering in our little SMT world. Gold; soft, warm, glowing, and insanely expens...
Au/Sn - One of a Kind
For those of us who recommend solder alloys, Au/Sn holds a place in our hearts. In many cases it is the #1 solder for an application (if......
Control Your Materials, or They Will Control You (part 2)
Optimizing the amount of solder paste transferred during component dipping for Package-on-Package assembly should be a goal for your PoP process. Whil...
Control Your Materials, or They Will Control You (part 1)
Package-on-Package solder paste is a relatively new concept in the solder industry. With limited material sets, we need to be able to capitalize on th...
The World Needs WEEE/RoHS
Folks, Recently the concern for e-waste has hit the mainstream media. The most thorough article being in National Geographic with supporting articles ...
Good Luck or Professional Help
A material trial can be a roll of the dice, or a very scientific experiment. Most customers don’t realize how much we crave new data points and ...