Vishay Intertechnology SMD Inrush Current Limiting PTC Thermistors Increase Board-Level Efficiency to Lower Costs

Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. (NYSE: VSH) today introduced a new series of insulated, surface-mount inrush current limiting ...
EDN

Illuminated tactile switches withstand reflow soldering

Littelfuse’s K5V series of illuminated tactile switches now include gull-wing and 2.1-mm PIP versions compatible with reflow ...
Hackaday

SMD Soldering With Big Iron

You have some fine pitch soldering to do, but all you have on hand is a big soldering iron. What do you do? There are a few possible answers, but [Mr SolderFix] likes to pull a strand from a large ...
IEEE

Development of a consistent multiaxial viscoelastic model for package warpage simulation

Abstract: A procedure for constructing the three-dimensional viscoelastic constitutive model of polymeric packaging material over a wide range of temperatures is presented. By using both tensile and ...
IEEE

Reliability, solderability and electrical performance of high density ultra thin capacitors based on carbon nanofibers

Abstract: This paper investigates the suitability of the Carbon Nano-Fiber Metal-Insulator-Metal (CNF-MIM) capacitor for integration in future miniaturized electronics. The CNF-MIM has previously ...