pv magazine’s UP sustainability campaign has investigated the use of lead in PV panels and found, with soldered cell interconnections in particular, viable alternatives are scarce. However, German ...

LINCOLN, R.I.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 8, 2006--The Solder Paste Group of EFD, Inc. and Leister Technologies LLC have agreed to a cooperative marketing effort for a unique, high-speed, high-precision, ...

Infineon Technologies AG today launches bipolar power modules in solder bond technology to address the specific requirements of cost-effective applications. With these new PowerBlock modules the ...

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 ...

In the run-up to pv magazine’s quality roundtable at Intersolar Europe, we look at a case where a production error resulted in cold solder joints in 5% of the solar ...

A relative latecomer to The Hackaday Prize, [AltMarcxs] has nevertheless come up with a very interesting tool for fabrication, the likes of which no one has ever seen before. It’s a rotating laser ...

To package temperature-sensitive glass/glass and glass/ceramics component groups, especially those with large substrate surfaces to be sealed, the laser-based joining process using glass solder is ...

Press-fit terminals provide a solder-free capability to mount power modules to a printed circuit board (PCB). Microchip Technology Inc. has announced a broad portfolio of SP1F and SP3F power modules ...

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 ...