Why doesn't my 80Au 20Sn solder look any thing like gold?
If you have ever handled a piece of 80Au 20Sn solder alloy, one of the things that......
Lead-Free Soldering: Striving for a Consensus
Folks, Recently I posted a note about a flurry of Technet posts in which I was misquoted regarding the status of lead-free electro...
Increased Use of Electricity for Lead-Free Soldering Assembly & High-Melt Lead-Free Solders
Folks, An obvious disadvantage of lead-free electronics soldering assembly is that the oven must be hotter and therefore will use more electricity (ve...
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...
Solder Wire
Solder wire is generally used for manual soldering operations, including rework. But, it can......
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 (SnAg) Solder Alloy for Stringing and Bussing Solar Modules
Typical Tabbing Ribbon Solders img width="400" align="right" height="301" src="https://cdn2.content.compendium...
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....
SAC Solder Alloy Wets Well, It Just Doesn't Spread Well
Folks, I have often pointed out that SAC solder’s poor wetting is both a curse and Godsend. It is a curse when trying to fill ...