What do you do if you have to solder thousands of through-hole parts? The expensive, professional way of doing this is running the boards through a wave soldering machine, or a machine with a fancy ...

[Jan Mrázek]’s success with 3D printing a solder paste stencil is awfully interesting, though he makes it clear that it is only a proof of concept. There are a lot of parts to this hack, so let’s step ...

The answer is the VersaXRM-500, a 3D X-ray microscope (XRM) from Xradia that can perform non-destructive 3D imaging of intact packages to determine voids and cracks in common implementations of solder ...

Applications such as those involving electromobility require high-quality miniaturized power electronics to complement electric and hybrid drives. The manufacture of such power electronic devices in ...

Cold soldering defects in a PV module. The problem has now become the most commonly found defect in pre-shipping module inspections. Image: CEA The electric grid is complex. For many generation ...

Previously, a Power Electronics Technology article titled “Inverted Acoustic System Cuts IGBT Failures” (September 2011) examined the use of an acoustic microscope to image heat-blocking defects such ...