New Equipment | Solder Paste Stencils
EasyBraid’s stencil rolls are designed for use in SMT screen printing lines which keep stencil apertures clear of paste residues during the automatic screen printing process. They also clean the bottom of stencils, keeping them free from paste and fl
ALPHA® Telecore XL-825 lead-free cored solder wire minimizes spattering in hand soldering operations, thus reducing circuit board contamination and enhancing worker safety and comfort.
New Equipment | Selective Soldering
For flexible miniwave soldering processes and dip soldering processes that guarantee short cycle times. The high-end system which leaves nothing to be desired. Maximum Power for Your Selective Production. SEHO PowerSelective is featured with an ou
New Equipment | Solder Materials
FCT Assembly has partnered with Nihon Superior to be able to offer their patented lead free nickel stabilized tin/copper wave solder alloy- SN100C in North America. SN100C was developed to offer a technically superior and more economical option to th
New Equipment | Solder Materials
WS159 water washable solder paste is designed to provide humidity tolerance and excellent wetting to meet the requirements for reliable solder joints in PCB Assemblies. WS159 offers high levels of repeatability and consistency even in a wide range of
Technical Library | 2014-03-06 19:04:07.0
Over the last few years, there has been an increase in the rate of Head-in-Pillow component soldering defects which interrupts the merger of the BGA/CSP component solder spheres with the molten solder paste during reflow. The issue has occurred across a broad segment of industries including consumer, telecom and military. There are many reasons for this issue such as warpage issues of the component or board, ball co-planarity issues for BGA/CSP components and non-wetting of the component based on contamination or excessive oxidation of the component coating. The issue has been found to occur not only on lead-free soldered assemblies where the increased soldering temperatures may give rise to increase component/board warpage but also on tin-lead soldered assemblies.
Industry News | 2020-08-22 04:07:55.0
Indium Corporation will host an InSIDER Series webinar on causes and solutions of PCB and component warpage defects, presented by industry consultant Bob Willis. There will be two sessions on Wednesday, Sept. 9--5:30 a.m. Eastern Time (10:30 a.m. London Time, 5:30 p.m. Malaysia Time) and Noon Eastern Time (5 p.m. London Time, Midnight Malaysia Time).
New Equipment | Assembly Services
Benefit from our versatility and experience. We manufacture rigid printed circuit boards, rigid-flex and flexible printed circuit boards [including crimp technology]. You`ll find us flexible as far as dimensions are concerned: in addition to standard
In-Line X-ray Inspection System Automatically in-line inspect Solder joint defects of PCBA and other defects on Hidden Components. Able to judge Good/NG fast with inspection speed of 1sec/FOV and the program can set ROIs conveniently. Performing X-r
Technical Library | 2020-11-24 23:01:04.0
The miniaturization trend is driving industry to adopting low standoff components or components in cavity. The cost reduction pressure is pushing telecommunication industry to combine assembly of components and electromagnetic shield in one single reflow process. As a result, the flux outgassing/drying is getting very difficult for devices due to poor venting channel. This resulted in insufficiently dried/burnt-off flux residue. For a properly formulated flux, the remaining flux activity posed no issue in a dried flux residue for no-clean process. However, when venting channel is blocked, not only solvents remain, but also activators could not be burnt off. The presence of solvents allows mobility of active ingredients and the associated corrosion, thus poses a major threat to the reliability. In this work, a new halogen-free no-clean SnAgCu solder paste, 33-76-1, has been developed. This solder paste exhibited SIR value above the IPC spec 100 MΩ without any dendrite formation, even with a wet flux residue on the comb pattern. The wet flux residue was caused by covering the comb pattern with 10 mm × 10 mm glass slide during reflow and SIR testing in order to mimic the poorly vented low standoff components. The paste 33-76-1 also showed very good SMT assembly performance, including voiding of QFN and HIP resistance. The wetting ability of paste 33-76-1 was very good under nitrogen. For air reflow, 33-76-1 still matched paste C which is widely accepted by industry for air reflow process. The above good performance on both non-corrosivity with wet flux residue and robust SMT process can only be accomplished through a breakthrough in flux technology.
