DIY: Applying Solder to Molybdenum, Titanium, and Tungsten (Ultrasonic Soldering)
There are many sputtering target materials that are tricky to solder to. For those alloys we ‘bring out the big guns’ – in this case...
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DIY: Applying Solder to Copper, Nickel, and Platinum (Flux)
In order to NanoBond® parts that are made out of copper, nickel, or platinum, we must first apply solder to the bonding surface. This......
DIY: Applying Solder to Aluminum and Aluminum Alloys (Scrubbing)
Aluminum is a very common material to bond to, although it is a little tricky to solder to with traditional methods. The method that we......
DIY: Connecting NanoFoil®
Sometimes one piece of NanoFoil® just isn’t enough… We often NanoBond® sputtering targets which are large enough to require multi...
DIY: Determining What NanoFoil® You Have On Hand
If you have some NanoFoil® on hand at your facility and you do not have the original packaging, all hope is not......
DIY: Hand Cutting NanoFoil®
Hand cutting is only one option for shaping NanoFoil®, however it is quick, easy, and inexpensive. All you need to......
DIY: Immersion Tin Plating Copper Substrates
One of our customers discovered a little trick to save some time and avoid having his parts sent out for tin plating. At a......
DIY: Electroplating NanoFoil®
A few years back, Indium Corporation’s own Eric Bastow set up a prototype NanoFoil® plating process to demonstrate the material and......