Technical Experts/Bloggers Meet at Semicon West for an Impromtu Interactive Discussion:
I am looking forward to next week when I will meet many of my industry colleagues (YOU) at the Semicon West......
What Will Your Interest Be At InterSolar? Meet the Bloggers And Let Us Know.
A picture from last year’s “Meet the Bloggers” event. The Semicon......
What Will Your Interest Be At Semicon West? Meet the Bloggers And Let Us Know.
The Semicon West trade show is the one show I most look forward to all year. It......
Pb-Free Solders are Not the Cause of Tin Whiskers
Tin Whiskers growing between pure tin-plated hook terminals of an electromagnetic relay. Image courtesy of nepp.nasa.gov ......
Flux Activators: What they are / What they do
A colleague in California was on the phone last week: “We need a flux with greater activity!” He said. Choking down comments like “M...
Dispelling 10 Myths about Nitrogen Reflow (part II)
...and we’re back with more nitrogen and inert soldering myths. Part I of this post can be found here. Myth 6: “I turned on......
Dispelling 10 Myths about Nitrogen Reflow (part I)
In my twenty years in the electronics manufacturing industry, I have heard a lot of claims made about the use of nitrogen in inerted soldering ...
Heatsink Mounting using Heat-Spring TIM
The heatsink can be mounted uniformly using the Heat-Spring as a TIM because......
How Much Metal is in Solder Paste?
Something that seems counter-intuitive to many customers, yet seems obvious to a rheologist is why the percent metal loading of solder paste vari...