High Purity Tin for EUV Lithography
High purity tin is used in next generation EUV lithography tools to create light at 13.5nm. Indium Corporation produces high purity tin beyond the sta...
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Indium-Tin Oxide (ITO) Used in Flat-Panel Displays
The wonderful world of indium-tin oxide, ITO. Obviously, as the name implies, it's indium, tin, and oxygen in oxide form, but how it is used? What...
Changing the Composition of Your Tin-Lead Solder Pot
In today’s electronics manufacturing industry, many companies are using lead-free solder alloys. However, there are a few sectors in the industr...
Lack of Concern for Tin Pest as a Reliability Issue in Mission Critical Products Still Hard to Understand
Folks, My recent post on tin whiskers sparked the memory of tin pest in my mind. I have to admit, that with all of the legitimate reliability co...
IPC Tin Whisker Conference Sheds New Light
Folks, I just returned from SMTA/INEMI’s Medical Conference in Milpitas (near San Jose/San Fransisco), where I spoke on Tin Whiskers. I the...
NanoFoil® as a Thermal Interface Material
NanoFoil® has many uses, and, sometimes, it has more than one function in an application. For instance, if tin coated NanoFoil® is......
波峰焊槽中的锡低了When tin level is low in wave solder pot...
有个客户的锡铅63/37波峰焊（Sn63Pb37 wave soldering）的焊点&#...
The Miracle of Soldering
Folks, Pity the copper age smelter of 3000BC. He had to get his wood fire to 1085°C to smelt or melt copper, sometimes he couldn’t get...
Tin and Silver Use in Electronics after RoHS
Folks, In a recent posting we discussed that the higher melting temperatures of lead-free solder require reflow soldering temperatures to be higher, t...
Tin Whiskers Found in Toyota Brake Assemblies
Folks, You may remember that more than a year ago there was much speculation that tin whiskers may be......