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FEATURES

Designer Salary Survey
Better with Age
Our annual survey finds PCB designers are an even more experienced crowd, with concerns about workload, yet increasingly lucrative compensation.
by Chelsey Drysdale

Screen Printing
The Future of Printing Technology
What’s in store? Novel deposition methods, new stencil architectures, “virtual” panelized PCBs, and faster, more highly-utilized print platforms.
by Mark Whitmore

Cleaning
Determining Critical Cleaning Process Parameters for QFNs
Results of a two-phase study aimed at complete cleanliness underneath leadless devices or QFNs, using both lead-free water soluble and lead-free no-clean solder pastes.
by Umut Tosun, Naveen Ravindran and Michael McCutchen

FIRST PERSON

• Caveat Lector
  Black days at the former Big Blue.
  Mike Buetow

• Talking Heads
  Multek’s Franck Lize and Bill Beckenbaugh.
  Mike Buetow

MONEY MATTERS

• ROI
  Trending.
  Peter Bigelow

• Focus On Business
  Why succinct surveys count.
  Susan Mucha

TECH TALK

• Screen Printing
  Stencil tension.
  Clive Ashmore

• Materials World
  Improving hole fill.
  Karl Seelig and Carlos Tafoya

• Process Doctor
  Scratching the surface.
  Richard Burke

• Test & Inspection
  Let’s get small.
  Mark Lau

• Solar Technologies
  A sunny forecast.
  Tom Falcon