Rheological characterisation and printing performance of Sn/Ag/Cu solder pastes

R Durairaj, S Ramesh, S Mallik, A Seman, N Ekere - Materials & Design, 2009 - Elsevier
Lead-free solder paste printing process accounts for majority of the assembly defects in the
electronic manufacturing industry. The study investigates rheological behaviour and stencil …

Rheological characterisation of solder pastes and isotropic conductive adhesives used for flip-chip assembly

R Durairaj, S Mallik, A Seman, A Marks… - Journal of materials …, 2009 - Elsevier
Solder pastes and isotropic conductive adhesives (ICAs) are widely used as a principal
bonding medium in the electronic industry. This study investigates the rheological behaviour …

A non-Newtonian computational fluid dynamics study of the stencil printing process

GP Glinski, C Bailey… - Proceedings of the …, 2001 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper describes the application of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to simulate the
macroscopic bulk motion of solder paste ahead of a moving squeegee blade in the stencil …

Critical factors affecting paste flow during the stencil printing of solder paste

R Durairaj, TA Nguty, NN Ekere - Soldering & Surface Mount …, 2001 - emerald.com
The paste printing process accounts for the majority of assembly defects, and most defects
originate from poor understanding of the effect of printing process parameters on the printing …

Correlating solder paste composition with stencil printing performance

TA Nguty, NN Ekere, A Adebayo - Twenty Fourth IEEE/CPMT …, 1999 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Soldering technologies continue to evolve, particularly in the area of solder pastes used in
SMD reflow soldering. Solder pastes typically consist of solder alloy powder, flux, viscosity …

Understanding the process window for printing lead-free solder pastes

TA Nguty, S Budiman, D Rajkumar… - … Conference (Cat. No …, 2000 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Solder paste is primarily used as a bonding medium for surface mount assemblies (SMA) in
the electronics industry. The solder paste is typically deposited using the stencil printing …

Solder paste characterisation: towards the development of quality control (QC) tool

R Durairaj, S Mallik, NN Ekere - Soldering & Surface mount …, 2008 - emerald.com
Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to develop a quality control tool based on rheological
test methods for solder paste and flux media. Design/methodology/approach–The …

Analysis of solder paste release in fine pitch stencil printing processes

G Rodriguez, DF Baldwin - 1999 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Advanced electronics packaging technologies such as chip scale packages, fine pitch ball
grid arrays, and flip chip are pushing solder paste stencil printing to the limit. In order to …

Simulation of the stencil printing process [solder pastes]

GP Glinski, C Bailey… - International symposium on …, 2000 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper describes the application of advanced computational fluid dynamics (CFD)
methods to model the stencil printing process at both macroscopic and microscopic length …

The performance of vibrating squeegee in the stencil printing of solder pastes

NN Ekere, D He - Journal of Electronics Manufacturing, 1996 - World Scientific
The vibrating squeegee is considered by many to be one of the important developments in
solder paste printing in recent years. The use of the vibrating squeegee for stencil printing of …