Industry News | 2022-01-29 13:28:14.0
Indium Corporation has expanded its manufacturing capabilities to include a fine diameter 0.004" (0.10mm) flux-cored wire made with select Pb-free alloys to help customers meet the progressively demanding requirements of fine-pitch applications.
Technical Library | 2022-10-31 17:25:37.0
Mixed formulation solder alloys refer to specific combinations of Sn-37Pb and SAC305 (96.5Sn–3.0Ag–0.5Cu). They present a solution for the interim period before Pb-free electronic assemblies are universally accepted. In this work, the surfaces of mixed formulation solder alloys have been studied by in situ and real-time Auger electron spectroscopy as a function of temperature as the alloys are raised above the melting point. With increasing temperature, there is a growing fraction of low-level, bulk contaminants that segregate to the alloy surfaces. In particular, the amount of surface C is nearly _50–60 at. % C at the melting point. The segregating impurities inhibit solderability by providing a blocking layer to reaction between the alloy and substrate. A similar phenomenon has been observed over a wide range of (SAC and non-SAC) alloys synthesized by a variety of techniques. That solder alloy surfaces at melting have a radically different composition from the bulk uncovers a key variable that helps to explain the wide variability in contact angles reported in previous studies of wetting and adhesion. VC 2011 American Vacuum Society. [DOI: 10.1116/1.3584821]
Industry News | 2002-12-03 15:00:11.0
Practical Components adds new formulations
New Equipment | Solder Materials
For BGA's and PCB Production and Rework Sphere Accurate to +/- .001, All standard sizes available Standard Sizes of Sphere's: .035" +/- .002 10SN/90PB High-Temp .030" +/- .001 63SN/37PB .022" +/- .001 63SN/37PB .016" +/- .001 63S
New Equipment | Solder Materials
As the world's leading developer of advanced solder paste materials, Henkel delivers decades of technology and expertise for optimized process performance. With ground breaking new formulations to provide an easy transition to lead-free as well as pr
Technical Library | 2019-01-09 19:19:52.0
The electronics industry has widely adopted Sn-3.0Ag-0.5Cu solder alloys for lead-free reflow soldering applications and tin-copper based alloys for wave soldering applications. In automated soldering or rework operations, users may work with Sn-Ag-Cu or Sn-Cu based alloys. One of the challenges with these types of lead-free alloys for automated / hand soldering operations, is that the life of the soldering iron tips will shorten drastically using lead-free solders with an increased cost of soldering iron tool maintenance/ tip replacement. Development was done on a new lead-free low silver solder rework alloy (Sn-0.3Ag-0.7Cu-0.04Co) in comparison with a number of alternative lead-free alloys including Sn-0.3Ag-0.7Cu, Sn-0.7Cu and Sn-3.0Ag-0.5Cu and tin-lead Sn40Pb solder in soldering evaluations.
Technical Library | 2024-06-23 21:57:16.0
Two extremes of reflow time scale for copper pillar flip chip solder joints were explored in this study. Sn-2.5Ag solder capped pillars were joined to laminate substrates using either conventional forced convection reflow or the controlled impingement of a defocused infrared laser. The laser reflow joining process was accomplished with an order of magnitude reduction in time above liquidus and a similar increase in solidification cooling rate. The brief reflow time and rapid cooling of a laser impingement reflow necessarily affects all time and temperature dependent phenomena characteristic of reflowed molten solder. These include second phase precipitate dissolution, base metal (copper) dissolution, and the extent of surface wetting. This study examines the reflow dependent microstructural aspects of flip chip Sn-Ag joints on samples of two different size scales, the first with copper pillars of 70μm diameter on 120μm pitch and the second with 23μm diameter pillars on a 40μm pitch. The length scale of Pb-free solder joints is known to affect the Sn grain solidification structure; Sn grain morphology will be noted across both reflow time and joint length scales. Sn grain morphology was further found to be dependent on the extent of surface wetting when such wetting circumvented the copper diffusion barrier layer. Microstructural analysis also will include a comparison of intermetallic structures formed; including the size and number density of second phase Ag3Sn precipitates in the joint and the morphology and thickness of the interfacial intermetallics formed on the pillar and substrate surfaces.
Industry News | 2014-08-12 13:50:53.0
Indium Corporation's Wisdom Qu, assistant technical manager, and Fengying Zhou, research chemist, will present at the SMTA China South Conference Aug. 26-28 in Shenzhen, China.
Sn/3.5Ag, Sn/0.7Cu, Sn/3.9Ag/0.6Cu, Sn/2.0Ag/0.7Cu (for Bar, Wire, Paste, BGA & Anode); Sn/Sb (for Bar); Sn (for Bar, Wire & Anode); Ni/Pd (for Bar, BGA & Anode); Conductive Adhesive (for Paste).
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