We all know what a stencil is, in the traditional sense. Children often make use of plastic stencil sheets in order to practice drawing shapes, while sign makers and other professionals are able to ut...

If your electronics assembly shop isn't using Surface Mount Technologies (SMT) in their processes, you're potentially losing out in numerous ways.  While SMT production isn'...

Anyone trying to bring a new piece of electronics to market faces a major balancing act between trying to arrive at-market before the current generation of technology becomes last-gen, while...

Everyone loves a “win-win” This is especially true when it comes to highly complex electronic assemblies with high- tech/high-reliability products such as Defense, Space, Medical, RF and Microwav...

As the structure of semi conductors became more complex over time, the packaging technology required significant changes in order to offer added utilities and functionalities. To complement the comple...

Electric charge is nothing but flow of electrons from one object to another. We all know that an atom is made up of electrons, protons and neutrons (look at the diagram on the right that explains the ...

What is ESD?ESD stands for electrostatic discharge. ESD can be defined as transfer of electric charge between two different objects charged to different electric potentials. This happens when the two ...

I NTRODUCTION OF PCB MATERIALSThe materials used to make PCBs are very important. And because the price of different material can vary from 10% to 100%, so the price differences of PCBs made by differ...