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One of the major suppliers of stencils and pallets to the SMT industry. Stentech offers Electroformed and laser cut stencils, pallets and fixtures.
New Equipment | Solder Paste Stencils
SMT Foil Stencils are laser cut solder paste stencils designed to work on their own for hand printing or with stencil tensioning systems. These laser cut stencils do not need to be permanently glued in a frame. These so-called frameless stencils are
New Equipment | Solder Paste Stencils
SMT Framed Stencils are laser cut solder paste stencils designed to work on SMT printing machines. These laser cut stencils are permanently glued into a frame. These framed stencils are are designed for highly repeatable continuous operation in volum
Electronics Forum | Fri Jul 13 14:56:01 EDT 2001 | stevenamacdonald
One of our board vendors recently switched their stencil design to home plate apertures. Since the change the quality and yield of their PCB's has went south, Could this process change be the cause?
Electronics Forum | Fri Jul 13 19:08:55 EDT 2001 | mparker
Home plate apertures are designed to reduce or eliminate solder balls that occur when placing a chip and reflow of the solder. This aperture type is usually desired when processing with a "no-clean" solder paste. The design of the aperture is usually
Industry News | 2003-03-21 08:12:24.0
Tecan reckons it is consistently producing what may be regarded as the most efficient stencils in the world today.
Industry News | 2012-01-13 13:27:59.0
The SMT stencil market has a slew of new options in foil materials, coatings and cutting technologies, all of which promise to improve the solder paste printing process. Which of these options really do help assemblers keep yields up and costs down, and which don’t?
Technical Library | 2023-08-04 15:27:30.0
A designed experiment evaluated the influence of several variables on appearance and strength of Pb-free solder joints. Components, with leads finished with nickel-palladium-gold (NiPdAu), were used from Texas Instruments (TI) and two other integrated circuit suppliers. Pb-free solder paste used was tin-silver-copper (SnAgCu) alloy. Variables were printed wiring board (PWB) pad size/stencil aperture (the pad finish was consistent; electrolysis Ni/immersion Au), reflow atmosphere, reflow temperature, Pd thickness in the NiPdAu finish, and thermal aging. Height of solder wetting to component lead sides was measured for both ceramic plate and PWB soldering. A third response was solder joint strength; a "lead pull" test determined the maximum force needed to pull the component lead from the PWB. This paper presents a statistical analysis of the designed experiment. Reflow atmosphere and pad size/stencil aperture have the greatest contribution to the height of lead side wetting. Reflow temperature, palladium thickness, and preconditioning had very little impact on side-wetting height. For lead pull, variance in the data was relatively small and the factors tested had little impact.
Technical Library | 2024-04-08 15:46:36.0
A designed experiment evaluated the influence of several variables on appearance and strength of Pb-free solder joints. Components, with leads finished with nickel-palladium-gold (NiPdAu), were used from Texas Instruments (TI) and two other integrated circuit suppliers. Pb-free solder paste used was tin-silver-copper (SnAgCu) alloy. Variables were printed wiring board (PWB) pad size/stencil aperture (the pad finish was consistent; electrolysis Ni/immersion Au), reflow atmosphere, reflow temperature, Pd thickness in the NiPdAu finish, and thermal aging. Height of solder wetting to component lead sides was measured for both ceramic plate and PWB soldering. A third response was solder joint strength; a "lead pull" test determined the maximum force needed to pull the component lead from the PWB. This paper presents a statistical analysis of the designed experiment. Reflow atmosphere and pad size/stencil aperture have the greatest contribution to the height of lead side wetting. Reflow temperature, palladium thickness, and preconditioning had very little impact on side-wetting height. For lead pull, variance in the data was relatively small and the factors tested had little impact.
This is video shows how to print a PCB using a prototype foil only stencil. The SMT prototype stencil (www.soldertools.net) is made from a high nickel content material able to offer repeatable high precision apertures. The steps of alignment, printin
Stencil Printing of Small Apertures SMTnet Express October 25, 2012, Subscribers: 25748, Members: Companies: 9022, Users: 33865 Stencil Printing of Small Apertures First published in the 2012 IPC APEX EXPO technical conference proceedings
SMT Express, Volume 2, Issue No. 3 - from SMTnet.com Volume 2, Issue No. 3 Thursday, March 16, 2000 Featured Article Return to Front Page Stencil Design for Mixed Technology Through-hole / SMT Placement and Reflow by William E. Coleman, Photo
ASYMTEK Products | Nordson Electronics Solutions | https://www.nordson.com/en/divisions/efd/resource-center/solder-frequently-asked-questions
. The most effective shape is a triangular shape removed from the inside edge of each aperture, often called reverse home plate. Two other options in use are a home plate shape and simple aperture reduction on the inside edges
40731 | https://www.smta.org/smtai/SMTAI-2019-Technical-Program.pdf?v=200609010628
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