Unless you’d like to spend hours with a toothpick and a tub of solder paste, stencils are the way to go whenever you’re placing SMD parts. While most commercial and industrial SMD stencils are made ...

Imagine having a surface mount kit that you’d like to stencil with solder paste and reflow solder, but which doesn’t come with a solder stencil. That was what faced [Honghong Lu], and she rose to the ...

The Stencil Laser G 6060, a fully enclosed laser cutting system for the production of SMT stencils, employs a gantry architecture that contributes to a small footprint and lightweight construction.

QFNs can be pretty annoying. It’s been said over and over that you don’t want to leave the solder paste opening wide open for a QFN center pad. 50 – 75% paste coverage will get you bets results. QFNs ...

Stenciling is an old art form. Neanderthal artists created patterns using their hands as stencils. They blew powdered pigment across their hands to capture the outline of their fingers on the walls of ...