Indium Corporation Expert to Present at ELEXCON 2018

Indium Corporation’s Fiona Chen, Manager of Research & Development, will deliver a presentation at ELEXCON 2018, December 20-22 in Shenzhen, China.

Chen will present on the topic of Fluxes Suppressing Non-Wet Opens at BGA Assembly. The paper examines the advancement of miniaturization and its impact on the increased severity of thermal warpage and resultant non-wet opens (NWO) at BGA assembly. Chen’s paper studies a “cold-welding barrier” method developed to suppress NWO.

Chen is the Manager of Research & Development at Indium Corporation’s Suzhou facility. She has been with the company since 2008, and has worked on the development of electronics SMT assembly solder materials with an emphasis on new flux chemistry development for lead-free soldering applications. She is also responsible for new technology and new product development. Chen received her bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering in 2005 and her master’s degree in polymer chemistry and physics in 2008 from Suzhou University.

Indium Corporation is a premier materials manufacturer and supplier to the global electronics, semiconductor, thin-film, and thermal management markets. Products include solders and fluxes; brazes; thermal interface materials; sputtering targets; indium, gallium, germanium, and tin metals and inorganic compounds; and NanoFoil^®. Founded in 1934, the company has global technical support and factories located in China, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, the United Kingdom, and the USA.

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