High Melting Pb-free Solder Paste
Dr Ning-Cheng Lee (Indium Corporation‘s Vice-President of Technology) just let me review his team’s excellent upcoming paper on solde...
A New Low-Temperature Metallization Paste For Interconnecting Thin-Film Solar Cells
Last week I spent some time in the Advanced Materials and Process Development Lab with Eric Bastow, verifying the printing characteristics of our newe...
Tin/Silver Solder Paste in Die Attach (Sn/Ag)
A customer at Semicon West this year asked about Pb-free solder usage in die-attach applications. Although many smaller discrete components ...
Lead-Free Soldering Reliability: Dr. Ron Accused of Being, "Motivated Only by Greed"
Folks, Here is an interesting turn of events related to the reliability of lead-free (Pb-free) soldering reliability....
Indium Corporation at Semicon West 2011
Many, many thanks to the hundreds of you who came by the Indium Corporation booth at Semicon West this year. Some of you came to hear about ...
SMT Reflow Process Window: Solder Paste Maximum Slope vs. Ramp (or Average) Rate
Included in a solder paste‘s Product Data Sheet, among other things, are general guidelines which aid the customer in designing a...
Solving Solder Starvation in SMT Electronics Assembly
Solder starvation is a serious electronics assembly issue – with a very simple solution. Solder starvation occurs when adequate volumes of solde...
Humidity and Solder Paste Do Not Mix
Unbeknowst to me, the refrigerator where I store my solder paste and fluxes that I use for SIR (Surface Insulation Resistance) testing was.....
Silver-free and Low-Silver Solder Alloys for SMT Discussion, Part 1: Reliability
There seems to be a growing trend to use a low-Ag or Ag-free solder alloy for Surface Mount Technology (SMT) electronics assembly, similar to what is ...