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1808 SMT / PCB Assembly Related Technical Articles

SMD Naked Capacitors Technologies For Severe Application Environments And Circuit Functions

Jul 07, 2011 | E.Boni, D. Montanari, L. Caliari, F. Bregoli, L. Barbieri, F. Bergamaschi

The demand for miniaturized electronic equipment and fully-automated assembly lines for mass-production of new products require the availability of a complete range of SMD components...

Publisher: KEMET Electronics Corporation

KEMET Electronics Corporation

KEMET offers the world's most complete line of surface-mount and through-hole capacitor technologies across tantalum, ceramic, film, aluminum, electrolytic, and paper dielectrics.

Simpsonville,

Manufacturer

Quantitative Evaluation of New SMT Stencil Materials

Jun 29, 2011 | Chrys Shea, Quyen Chu, Sundar Sethuraman, Rajoo Venkat ,Jeff Ando, Paul Hashimoto

High yields in the stencil printing process are essential to a profitable SMT assembly operation. But as circuit complexity continues to increase, so do the challenges of maintaining a successful solder paste deposition process. To help assemblers address...

Publisher: Shea Engineering Services

Shea Engineering Services

We work with electronics industry suppliers to provide top quality technical documentation for their products. Services include: ghost writing, presentation creation and training program development.

Burlington, New Jersey, USA

Consultant / Service Provider

Back to Basics – Why Clean?

Jun 28, 2011 | ZESTRON

ZESTRON America’s spring edition of ZESTRON News goes back to basics providing the latest information on the topics of cleaning in the electronics manufacturing industry....

Publisher: ZESTRON Americas

ZESTRON Americas

The globally leading provider of high precision cleaning products, services and training solutions in the electronics and semiconductor manufacturing industries.

Manassas, Virginia, USA

Consultant / Service Provider, Manufacturer, Training Provider

A Review of Test Methods and Classifications for Halogen-Free Soldering Materials

Jun 23, 2011 | Jasbir Bath, Gordon Clark, Tim Jensen, Renee Michalkiewicz, Brian Toleno

Over the last few years, there has been an increase in the evaluation and use of halogen-free soldering materials. In addition, there has been increased scrutiny into the level of halogens and refinement of the definition and testing of halogen-free solde...

Publisher: Indium Corporation

Indium Corporation

Solder pastes, solder preforms, solder spheres, soldering fluxes, electrically-conductive adhesives. All alloys: tin-lead, lead-free, indium alloys, and more.

Utica, New York, USA

Manufacturer

Use of Non Etching Adhesion Promoters in Advanced PCB Applications

Jun 16, 2011 | Roger Massey, Adrian Zee

Based on tests carried out with commercially available chemistry, this paper discusses the advantages available through the use of NEAP processes for inner layer bonding and soldermask pretreatment. The process is characterized with a view to high volume ...

Publisher: Atotech

Atotech

One of the world's leading suppliers of integrated production systems, chemistry, equipment, know-how and service for electroplating, semiconductor and printed circuit board manufacturing.

Berlin, Germany

Manufacturer

Defect freeQFN Assembly

Jun 09, 2011 | Brian J. Leach

QFN Description: A QFN package is a QUAD-FLAT-NO LEAD device. This package is small and lightweight and has no leads (unlike a gull wing or J-leaded device). QFN’s have a thermal pad (paddle) on the bottom side of the part that offers heat dissipation and...

Publisher: AccuSpec Electronics, LLC

AccuSpec Electronics, LLC

Highly specialized, difficult to build electronic assemblies. Medium to low volume.

McKean, Pennsylvania, USA

Manufacturer

Warpage Measurement of PCB With 3D Metrology

Jun 09, 2011 | Craig Leising

Flatness measurement of electronic parts and assemblies, or PCB’s, has become increasingly critical as geometries become smaller: finer pitches, smaller solder ball volumes, thinner substrates, etc. Additionally, processing temperatures vary and can pla...

Publisher: NANOVEA

NANOVEA

From the Irvine, CA office Nanovea began designing and manufacturing instruments after years of experience in providing solutions for profilometry, mechanical and tribology applications.

Irvine, California, USA

Consultant / Service Provider, Manufacturer

Accurate Quantitative Physics-of-Failure Approach to Integrated Circuit Reliability

Jun 02, 2011 | Edward Wyrwas, Lloyd Condra, Avshalom Hava

Modern electronics typically consist of microprocessors and other complex integrated circuits (ICs) such as FPGAs, ADCs, and memory. They are susceptible to electrical, mechanical and thermal modes of failure like other components on a printed circuit boa...

Publisher: DfR Solutions (acquired by ANSYS Inc)

DfR Solutions (acquired by ANSYS Inc)

DfR Solutions has world-renowned expertise in applying the science of Reliability Physics to electrical and electronics technologies, and is a leading provider of quality, reliability, and durability (QRD) research and consulting

College Park,

Consultant / Service Provider

Package Converter Compliments Chip Obsolescence

May 26, 2011 | Ila Pal

The Semiconductor industry enabling today’s electronics market place is widely disseminated between multiple customer factions such as consumer electronics, telecommunications, automotive, medical devices, military, aerospace, industrial controls, embedde...

Publisher: Ironwood Electronics

Ironwood Electronics

Ironwood Electronics, an ISO9001/2000 company, offers a wide selection of high performance adapters and sockets for all the various SMT IC Packages. Fast, high quality quick turn custom projects are o

Burnsville, Minnesota, USA

Consultant / Service Provider

Improve Margins By Reducing Rework - A Benchmark Comparison

May 19, 2011 | Sjef v. Gastel, Manager of Advanced Development, Assembléon

Electronic equipment manufacturers know that rework and scrap cost them money, but rarely know just how much. Calculating it is relatively straightforward knowing the production line’s First Pass Yield (FPY), though....

Publisher: Assembléon

Assembléon

Assembleon manufactures a range of Surface Mount Technology (SMT) placement equipment, Pick & Place Machines and provides related services.

LA VELDHOVEN, Netherlands

Manufacturer

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