The SMT-8120 soldering-sintering paste, adapted from traditional MLCC paste, provides long-term reliability comparable to established TLPS pastes used in capacitor assembly. The sintered copper also ...

At some stage you will have to work with surface-mount devices (SMDs) and solder them by hand. You can wait until you are forced to learn, or you can leap into the fray with gusto and abandon. At some ...

Recently we started a series on the components used to assemble a circuit board. The first issue was on dispensing solder paste. Moving down the assembly line, with the paste already on the board, the ...

Surface Mount Technology (SMT) are now commonly used in circuit board assemblies, one of which is SMT LED indicators. There are currently three basic types of Avago’s SMT LED indicator components, ...

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 ...