Conformal Coating Evaluation Test Development
The purpose of conformal coatings is to protect printed circuit boards and components mounted on them from the deleterious effects of moisture, particulate matter and corrosive gases. The co
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IPC APEX EXPO 2021
A Novel Bi-Free Low Temperature Solder Paste with Outstanding Drop Shock Resistance
DurafuseTM LT paste was designed as an alternative low temperature solder targeting at enabling hierarchy design for portable devices with good temperature cycling and superior drop-shock pe
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IPC APEX EXPO 2021
Evaluating Solder Joint Failures and Solder Joint Reliability: A Side-by-Side Comparison of Direct Current and Microwave Based Monitoring Techniques
Historically, evaluations of solder joint failures and solder joint reliability have been done with direct current (DC) methods, using event detectors or data loggers for high-frequency circ
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Use of Photonic Soldering to Rework Chip Components
Rework of assembled boards is often a necessary but difficult proposition. The complexity of the rework increases with the number of components to be reworked. A specific case involves where
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Board Thickness Effect on Accelerated Thermal Cycle Reliability
This paper compares the thermal cycling performance of a quad flat no-lead (QFN) component and three different ball grid array (BGA) components assembled onto printed circuit board test vehi
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Powering The Internet of Things
This Slide Show Utilizes the Cover Paper from the session.
This slide show discusses the use Power harvesting in conjunction with a typical battery and the efforts
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Wide Bandgap (WBG) Power Electronics for Heavy-Duty Vehicles
This slide show discusses inverters and power electronics for Heavy Machinery. There is discussion of Wide Band Gap Powered Devices. The purpose is increased efficiency gains.&nb
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Wide Bandgap (WBG) Power Electronics for Heavy-Duty Vehicles
This Paper utilizes the introduction from the session as its paper then discusses Wide Bandgap Power Electronics
All electronics products need a power source
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Packaging and Manufacturability Considerations for Strategic Power Applications
All electronics products need a power source. Thereby power electronics has a fundamental impact on their design and integration, from materials and device up to systems and the applications
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IPC APEX EXPO 2021
Adhesion Enhancement System for Next Generation High Speed IC Substrate
Driven by the demand for advanced electronic devices where massive wireless data transfer is required, a new generation of communication system, so called 5G has been developed. This new tec
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IPC APEX EXPO 2021
TLPS Z-Axis Interconnect Solutions for Thermal Transfer and Electrical Connection in PCBs
The electronic packaging industry is undergoing a revolutionary convergence between the printed circuit board segment and the semiconductor packaging segment. New, streamlined and hybrid pac
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IPC APEX EXPO 2021
Thermally Conductive and Electrically Insulative Multi-functional Film Adhesives for Assembling High-power Density Devices
In many aerospace and defense systems, there are increasing demands for multi-functional adhesive solutions that not only fulfill the traditional role of component and assembly bonding, but
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IPC APEX EXPO 2021
Thermal Materials for Packaging Power Electronics
Power electronics based on silicon devices must operate below 125 C and IGBTs under 150 C - WBG devices could extend this to 200 C. Thermal management of power electronics, whether power sup
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IPC APEX EXPO 2021
Solid Liquid Hybrid TIMs
For many years, metals have been used as thermal interface materials (TIMs) in the electronics industry. With high reliability and high thermal conductivity, metals have been a great solutio
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IPC APEX EXPO 2021
Round Robin Testing of HDI Technology from Space-Qualified PCB Manufacturers
Despite its introduction over three decades ago, designing, manufacturing and testing of high-density interconnect printed circuit boards remains a topic of discussion. The introduction of H
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IPC APEX EXPO 2021
Enig – Corrosion: The Status, The Risks and The Solutions
The ENIG finish is one of the most common final finishes finding broad acceptance in the market for decades. ENIG is the abbreviation for “electroless nickel – immersion gold” where it is th
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IPC APEX EXPO 2021
PCB Reliability Evaluation for 0.92 mm Pitch Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) Applications
Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) allow customers the flexibility to configure devices after they have been manufactured. The demand for higher speed requires higher pin counts to provid
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IPC APEX EXPO 2021
Emerging Supply Chain Cybersecurity Requirements, Government Acronyms, and Actual Security
Emerging Supply Chain Cybersecurity requirements, government acronyms, and actual security. Learn about the current state of mandates such as Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC
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IPC APEX EXPO 2021
IPC-1791, Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC), and the Printed Circuit Board Design, Fabrication, and Assembly Industry
This paper presents the concerns on trustworthiness for printed circuit board (PrCB) design, fabrication, and assembly sources for national defense systems, specifically products on the Unit
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IPC APEX EXPO 2021
CyberSecurity Concerns for the Printed Circuit Board Industry
This slide show discusses the cybersecurity risks associated with network integration. The supply chain is the most vulnerable, especially sub suppliers. A particular risk is whe
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IPC APEX EXPO 2021
Present Company Not Excluded – New Cybersecurity Regulations Will Affect Your Business (and make it safer)
Current policies and regulations intended to protect supply chains from cyber threats, especially the supply chain to the US DoD, have proven ineffective. Nearly $1 trillion in intellectual
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IPC APEX EXPO 2021
Circuit Board Security Vulnerabilities and Counteractions
Published stories in 2015 of a maliciously altered server motherboard have made clear that the circuit board is vulnerable to hardware attacks. To demonstrate their vulnerability, a circuit
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IPC APEX EXPO 2021
DoD Cybersecurity: Where We Are Now and What Needs to Be Done to Be Compliant
This paper will discuss from an operational perspective what companies are or aren’t doing now and what steps companies can take to secure their overall IT enterprise which will logically he
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IPC APEX EXPO 2021
Microvia Process Guidelines
High Density Interconnect (HDI) Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs) and assemblies are essential to allow space projects to benefit from the ever-increasing functionality of modern integrated circ
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IPC APEX EXPO 2021
IPC/IMEC/ESA Microvia TV IST Test Results
This slide show discusses Automation of IST testing. It utilizes Dielectric estimation laminate assessment method (DELAM). The slides utilizes thermo-graphics to locate the failu
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IPC APEX EXPO 2021
Signal Integrity, Reliability, and Cost Evaluation of PCB Interlayer Crosstalk Reduction
The push for faster data rates and increased signal density in printed circuit boards (PCBs) increases the risk of signal crosstalk on high-speed communication busses which can be highly det
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IPC APEX EXPO 2021
Solve BGA VIPPO Failures with Advanced Materials
Optimal breakout of ultra-fine-pitch ball grid array (BGA) packages requires a mix of via structures – through and blind mechanical, stacked and staggered laser – often implemented in thicke
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IPC APEX EXPO 2021
Semi-AdditivePCBProcessing: Process, Reliability Testing andApplications
The continued miniaturization of both packaging and component size in next-generation electronics presents a significant challenge for PCB designers and PCB fabricators. To effectively navig
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IPC APEX EXPO 2021
Thermal Improvement in 3D Embedded Modules Using Copper Bar Vias
The combination of increased I/O density, reduced footprint, and multi-die capability within a single platform makes embedded die an attractive solution. The benefits of embedding active die
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IPC APEX EXPO 2021
FIDES, Reliability Assessment of Electronics: A New Approach to the LeadFree Process Factor
The reliability control in airborne electronics products is essential due to safety and business reasons. As users do not have confidence in raw results provided by previous reliability pred
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IPC APEX EXPO 2021
Failure Analysis Cases Studies on Solder De-Wetting For Electronics Products
Over many years defect analysis has been used at the company to determine the root cause of various defects experienced in the field on electronic products from customers. Based on this work
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IPC APEX EXPO 2021
Analyzing Printed Circuit Board Voiding and other Anomalies when Requirements Covering the Anomalies are Vague
Two independent Printed Circuit Board (PCB) suppliers found unusually high voiding anomalies in multiple manufacturing lots of PCBs that were processed over a 5 month period. The issue was n
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IPC APEX EXPO 2021
A Framework for Large-Scale AI-Assisted Quality Inspection Implementation in Manufacturing Using Edge Computing
In recent years, neural network based deep learning models has demonstrated high accuracy in object detection and classification in the area of digital image processing. Manufacturing indust
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The Case for an Electronics Supply Chain Blockchain
Blockchain technology has a lot of publicity in the electronics industry because of the way it has been used to address issues with sharing data across distributed networks and is recognized
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IPC APEX EXPO 2021
Enriching Test Equipment Analytics with Structured Logging
Automated test equipment plays a large role in the manufacturing process at the Kansas City National Security Campus (KCNSC). Every test run generates data which is used to determine if a pa
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IPC APEX EXPO 2021
A Guide to Manufacturing Data Analytics
Data is the New Oil
Clive Humby, UK Mathematician and architect of Tesco’s Clubcard is widely credited as the first to coin the phrase in 2006: “Data is the new oil. It’s valuable,
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IPC APEX EXPO 2021
Advanced, Non-Real-Time Uses of Machine Data for Factory Operational Improvement
EMS factories have collected and used machine data for many decades. Over that time, much of the value derived from machine data collection has come from three operational use cases: allowin
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IPC APEX EXPO 2021
A Structured Approach for Providing well-formed Maintenance Data for SMT Machines
Smart Factories require continuous and reliable operation of all equipment. Therefore, equipment maintenance is becoming more and more important. A simple approach for equipment maintenance,
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IPC APEX EXPO 2021
IPC/IMEC/ESA Microvia TV Introduction
This presentation provides an overview of an ongoing examination of test methodologies within the ESA, supported by IPC, for the evaluation of stacked and staggered (offset) microvia structu
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IPC APEX EXPO 2021
Implementing a Global Machine Data Collection System Across Many EMS Factories
As EMS Providers such as Contract Manufacturers look forward to Industry 4.0, their need for complex data analysis to inform manufacturing decisions takes on even more significance. Managing
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IPC APEX EXPO 2021
Implementation of IPC CFX Using Surface Mount Legacy Equipment
The smart factory project for Electronics Manufacturing initiative was developed to create a sandpit to carry out industry 4.0 use cases working with industrial members and partners. The Man
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IPC APEX EXPO 2021
The Role for Automation and Robotics in Electronics Manufacturing
Why use robotics?
Precision -> improved quality
Consistency -> improved quality
Traceability -> improved quality
Dexterity -> to handl
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IPC APEX EXPO 2021
Working with Augmented Realityin Electronics Manufacturing
This paper discusses the automation of inspection using Augmented Reality (AR). Machine vision is used to find small components since it reduces the amount of time needed for ins
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IPC APEX EXPO 2021
IPC/IMEC/ESA MICROVIA TV INTRODUCTION
This presentation provides an overview of an ongoing examination of test methodologies within the ESA, supported by IPC, for the evaluation of stacked and staggered (offset) microvia structu
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IPC APEX EXPO 2021
IPC/IMEC/ESA Microvia TV CITC Test Results
IPC/IMEC/ESA Microvia TV CITC Outline
CITC Coupon and Test Plan Overview
CITC Test Introduction
Temperature Coefficient of Resistance (TCR) Test and Resul
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Process Improvement Strategies for Weak Microvia Interfaces
The industry has been openly discussing the concern about weak microvia interfaces after IR reflow and the potential for an undetected open or latent defect that can escape after expensive c
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The Complete Path to Least Resistance
The electroless copper deposit must form a metallurgical bond between the target pad and electrolytic copper deposit to survive reflow assembly. 4-wire resistance measurements conducted on P
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Microvia Weak Interfacial Fracture of Microvia Designs-Comparing the Reliability of Graphite-based Direct Metallization and Conventional Electroless Copper-Phase 1
Documentation shows that there are latent reliability issues with stacked filled Microvia designs for complex printed circuit boards. This issue is broadly defined as a weak interface betwee
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Technology Verification for Reliable Smart Surfaces
The Company has developed and industrialized an advanced technology of plastic-integrated structural electronics. Key benefits are 3-dimensional shapes, reduced thickness and weight as well
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IPC APEX EXPO 2021
Addressing the Changing Landscape of Automotive Electronic Designs: Improving Performance and Robustness Through Proper Material Choice
The automotive industry is experiencing significant change in design and performance expectations as it moves to the future. Synonymous with high reliability in harsh conditions, today the a
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