Abstract
Despite the tackiness offered by ball attach fluxes, they have failed to prevent ball movement on Solder on Pad (SoP) finishes when the solder protrudes above the solder mask. Dippable solder paste provides the tackiness needed for these adverse situations as well as small solder particles that inhibit ball rolling due to mechanical or convective forces downstream. Also, other pad finishes like OSP has issues with oxidation with partial pad wetting as a common defect. The use of dippable paste has also demonstrated relief with these wetting related issues. The most current application of dippable pastes is in the assembly of stacked BGA's also known as Package on Package (PoP). Although water clean formulations are typical in BGA assembly, PoP assembly typically utilizes no clean formulations. Although tacky flux has been successful in many PoP applications, issues such as coplanarity and package tolerances that require increasing the sphere size during assembly have found benefit from dippable solder paste.
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