Fluxes are an interesting element of working with many solder applications. With so many specialized fluxes there is usually a perfectly-tailored flux for removing oxides from any solderable surface. Even though we love fluxes at Indium Corporation – not all of our customers share that same affection.
It is understandable; some applications cannot tolerate flux contamination. If a customer chooses to say goodbye to flux we still have a few tricks to form a solder bond without that formulation of organic acids and solvents with which we are so familiar. One of those tricks is to use NanoFoil® to bond the two parts. For a comprehensive background of the process, click here.
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An unfortunate misconception about nanotechnology is that it needs to be cutting-edge technology. This is most likely a manufactured perception, created by all the people out there trying to sell nanotechnology as the “next big thing”. While there are huge advancements in various industries being made due to nanotechnology, the use of these materials overall is nothing new. Keep in mind that, by the broadest definition, nanotechnology simply deals with materials with features <100µm in measurement.
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A professor told me (on many occasions), “work smart, not hard”. Although he had good intentions, he was not a great mentor – as even his peers have since confided in me. This teacher had seen me try to tackle engineering problems with brute force instead of finding an easier way to accomplish the same goal. While I do agree with the first half of the motto, I cannot, and will not, be content with the second.

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Here at Indium Corporation we use punch presses to die cut NanoFoil® for our
A while back I wrote a
Mike is working with NanoFoil®, getting ready to bond a small, round, planar sputtering target. He has prepared his backing plate and target material and is ready to assemble the stack after cutting a piece of
I recently noticed something that appeared in a 3rd party lab report that a customer shared with me. This lab report was an analysis of a NanoBond® the customer had performed and sent out to verify. The thing that struck me was that the technician reported “This sample exhibited small fractures in the [NanoFoil®] core material which we have seen before…” I started thinking about this, and there are very few products in the solder world other than NanoFoil that you would like to crack. In this case, cracking is a good thing!
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