Indium Corporation’s Dr. Ning-Cheng Lee, Vice President of Technology, and Dr. Ron Lasky, Senior Technologist, will present at the SMTA/iNEMI Medical Electronics Symposium November 13-14 in Milpitas, California.
Dr. Lee’s presentation, Shock Resistant and Thermally Reliable Low-Ag SAC Solder Doped with Mn for Portable Medical Devices, discusses a new soldering alloy doped with Mn, and its considerable improvement in shock resistance and thermal fatigue performance.
Dr. Lasky’s presentation, Tin Whiskers: Causes, Risks, and Mitigation, reviews what tin whiskers are, how they form, mitigation techniques, and how to use failure modes and effects analysis as techniques to assess tin whisker risk.
Dr. Lee is a world-renown soldering expert and an SMTA Member of Distinction. He has extensive experience in the development of high-temperature polymers, encapsulants for microelectronics, underfills, and adhesives. His current research interests include advance materials for interconnects and packaging for electronics and optoelectronics applications, with an emphasis on both high performance and low cost of ownership.
Dr. Lasky, holder of the prestigious SMTA Founder’s Award, is a world-renown process expert and an Instructional Professor at Dartmouth College. He has over 30 years of experience in electronics and optoelectronic packaging and assembly. He has authored or edited five books and numerous technical papers and holds several patent disclosures. Dr. Lasky also authors a technology blog, which can be found at www.indium.com/drlasky. Indium Corporation is a premier materials manufacturer and supplier to the global electronics, semiconductor, solar, 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, Indium has global technical support and factories located in China, Singapore, South Korea, the United Kingdom, and the USA.
For more information about Indium Corporation, visit www.indium.com or email abrown@indium.com.