4. Cleaning-The removal of all oxides and surface oil from the tube end and fitting cup is crucial to allow the proper flow of solder metal into the joint. Failure to remove them can interfere ...

[Martin Thuo] at Iowa University used this property to make solder joints at room temperature using Field’s metal (a combination of bismuth, indium, and tin). The key is a process that coats the ...

The warm and rather stinky heart of any hacker’s lair is the soldering station, where the PCB meets the metal (solder). A good soldering station lets you get on with the business of building ...

An international research team has assessed the impact of soldering flux on heterojunction solar cells and has found that the ...