September 21, 2016

Hermetic vs “Near Hermetic” Packaging A Technical Review

Hermetic vs “Near Hermetic” Packaging A Technical Review Abstract: Hermetic cavity packages have long been the standard for military and space applications. On one hand the […]
September 20, 2016

New Release Of Mil-Std-883 Visual Inspection Criteria

New Release Of Mil-Std-883 Visual Inspection Criteria TM 2017 and TM 2032 The next update to Mil-Std-883 (Change Notice 5) is expected to be released in […]
September 19, 2016

Die Attach Voiding Requirements in Eutectically Bonded GaAs and GaN MMIC Power Amplifiers

Die Attach Voiding Requirements in Eutectically Bonded GaAs and GaN MMIC Power Amplifiers Eutectic bonding of Au-backed MMIC (Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuits) power amplifiers presents a […]
September 18, 2016

Hermeticity Testing And Issues With Correlation

Hermeticity Testing And Issues With Correlation Minnowbrook 2014 Measured, Standard and True Leak Rates Measured Leak Rate… R …(atm cc/sec) usually helium… it’s what the leak […]
September 16, 2016

IMAPS PDC: Packaging and Testing of Implanted Medical Products

IMAPS PDC: Packaging and Testing of Implanted Medical Products I recently taught a course at the Packaging and Testing of Implanted Medical Products. Most of the […]
September 14, 2016

Minnowbrook Microelectronics Conference

Minnowbrook Microelectronics Conference Since the early 1980’s, the annual Minnowbrook Microelectronics Conference has addressed moisture control in microelectronics, mainly related to hermeticity, leak physics, TM 1014, […]