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Optimizing Solder Paste Printing For Wafer Bumping
Recently,wafer bumping using solder paste with very fine solder powder has come into focus as more cost effective than
conventional sputtered or plated methods. This additive method revolves ar
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Solder Paste Printing of High Density Substrates using Enhanced Print Technology
The research discussed in this paper uses an innovative enhancement technique for printing High Density substrates. The
technique takes advantage of high frequency low amplitude vibrations appl
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Investigating Compliant Tooling Solutions within a Mass Imaging Process
The printing process is always highlighted as contributing the most process defects to a surface mount manufacturing
production facility; typical values presented are around the 60% range. Fact
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Squeegee Blades vs. Pump Technology: A Comparison of Solder Paste Print Performance
Enclosed print heads have recently been available to circuit board manufacturers as an alternate technology to conventional
squeegee printing. By design,enclosed print heads offer several advan
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A New Non-Halogen Flame-Retardant System for Printed Wiring Boards
There is continued interest in utilizing alternatives to bromine-based flame retardants for printed wiring boards. As a result,a
wide variety of phosphorus and non-phosphorus systems have been
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New Materials for HDI Interconnect Applications
A study was conduced to see if faster laser ablation rates,improved fracture resistance and better copper adhesion
after electroless plating could be engineered into existing Resin Coated Foils
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High Phosphorous Electroless Nickel Process for Mobile Phone PWBs
An Electroless Nickel and Immersion Gold (ENIG) plating process with a middle phosphorous content nickel layer is
currently a mainstream final finishing application for mobile phone Printed Wir
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Next Generation Organic Solderability Preservatives (OSP) for Lead-free soldering and Mixed Metal Finish PWB’s and BGA Substrates
With the electronics industry rapidly moving to lead-free soldering and requirements for long term reliability of the assembly
becoming more critical,fabricators and OEM’s must determine the mo
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Phosphorus in Electroless Nickel Layers – Curse or Blessing?
The influence of co-deposited Phosphorous (P) (from low to high P) within an electroless Nickel layer,regarding the
reliability of the solder joint integrity was investigated. The solder joint
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The Chemistry and Properties of a Newly Developed Immersion Silver Coating for PWB
To meet the emerging requirement of eliminating lead from electronics,the printed wiring board (PWB) industry is migrating
from hot-air-leveled SnPb solder to alternative final finishes. A thin
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Implementation of Immersion Silver PCB Surface Finish In Compliance With Underwriters Laboratories
At times,the electronics industry changes faster than the testing and regulatory groups serving the industry. In this case,the
electronics supply chain thoroughly evaluated the new printed circ
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Lead and Lead-free Solder Project LCIA Characterization Methods
This paper describes the life-cycle impact assessment methodology developed by the University of Tennessee to calculate
the impacts resulting from the use of lead and lead-free solders during t
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End-of-Life Management of Electronics Products Through Functional Signature Analysis
This paper presents a functional signature analysis method for the end-of-life management of products,particularly for
electrical-electronics and electromechanical applications.
Due to the fast
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Introduction to Microvia Design
Microvias are the fastest growing new technology for printed circuits. This talk will highlight the procedures,standards and
conditions that designers needs to consider to introduce microvias t
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CAD Toolsets: Today,Tomorrow and Over the Horizon
One of the most enabling product industries in the world today is Computer Automated Design (CAD). Can you imagine how
far technology would have progressed if not for the automation of computer
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PCB Design Using the Metric System
There are many ways of specifying units for many different measurements,and over the years they have developed a life of
their own. For example,length was once measured with glorious imprecisio
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The CAD Library of the Future
The electronics industry is constantly growing and introducing new technology sometimes faster than we can keep up with. This
paper reviews one of the single most important,but sometimes overlo
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VIGOR European Project New Industrial Applications in 3-D Interconnection
The 3-D interconnection and packaging emerged from the last decade. Today,the 3-D interconnection technologies are
becoming mature and their reliability assessed. 3-D technology constitutes the
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Liquid Solders for High Temperature Solder Joints
This paper presents a new joining technology for high-temperature application of solder joints,based on the results of the
joint research project "TLSD". By the use of temporary liquid solder j
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Using High Volume Electronics Manufacturing Technology to Develop a High Volume Fuel Cell Manufacturing Process
During the last several years there has been and continues to be an enormous investment by both governments and industry in
the development and manufacture of fuel cells. The United States,Japa
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Jetting of Underfill and Encapsulants for High-Speed Dispensing in Tight Spaces
The underfill process has become common practice in the assembly of flip chip and CSP devices and the practice of area
array assembly has been adopted by many board designers and component asse
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Wafer Applied Underfill: Flip Chip Assembly and Reliability
Manufacturers of consumer electronic products are continuously striving to confer greater functionality to smaller,lighter,
and less expensive packages,and flip chip is an important enabling te
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Influence of Flux and Powder Morphology on Void Formation in Silicon Wafer Bumping
Use of solder paste as a material to bump silicon wafers for interconnection to other level of package interconnection is a
simple and cost effective process. However,the material properties of
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Flip Chip Connections Using Bumps,Wells,and Imprinting
A conceptual framework for a new type of flip chip attachment is proposed. Gold stud bumps are provided on the chips,and
wells filled with solder paste are provided on a flexible substrate serv
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Stencil Design and Performance for Flip Chip/Wafer Bumping
There has been much recent interest in printing solder paste onto UBM pads of a wafer. Usually the wafer pad is overprinted
using a stencil aperture that is larger than the wafer pad. This perm
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