The laser is based on a phenomenon discovered during the past century, and laser technology became real and concrete at the beginning of the 1960s. In less than 50 years, it has become the basis for ...

Finnish scientists have tested a new eddy current-based soldering method for ribbon tabbing in solar cells and have found it considerably reduces the number of cracks and damages caused by ...

A vacuum can be used to achieve real advantages in the soldering process. We needed to take a closer look at the soldering process with vacuum profiles, so an evaluation project was performed. As a ...

Recap: The Raspberry Pi 5 was launched in 2023, delivering more than twice the performance of the previous generation. The board was also instrumental in bringing a small, yet significant change in ...

A group of researchers from the Korea Electronics Technology Institute (KETI) has investigated how commercially available solder fluxes can corrode indium tin oxide (ITO) electrodes in heterojunction ...

When manufacturing automotive electronic and power systems, mistakes delay time-to-market and can cost thousands in rework, especially if discovered late in the production process. If mistakes are not ...

Tombstoning is a defect where a two-leaded, wrap-around lead-style termination chip component fails to lay down appropriately and allow solder to simultaneously make a required electrical/mechanical ...

Lenovo has just announced a new patent-pending Low Temperature Solder (LTS) process that will be useful to develop and improve PC manufacturing by conserving energy and increasing reliability. With a ...

May & Scofield manufacturers electronic controls and systems, and needed to fulfill a contract for automotive flex circuits which forbade hand soldering. It turned to capital equipment distributor ...

Etek Europe has been appointed as the official UK representative for SMT Thermal Discoveries, a globally respected German manufacturer of advanced reflow soldering systems with over 35 years of ...