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NASA Tech Briefs’ Manufacturing & Prototyping Web page spotlights advances in manufacturing and fabrication processes, rapid prototyping, and digital prototyping, as published in NASA Tech Briefs magazine. Many of the Tech Briefs below are correlated to a Technical Support Package (TSP) or White Paper that can be downloaded free of charge.
Jun 2009
Two-Step Plasma Process for Cleaning Indium Bonding Bumps

This process could increase yields in the manufacture of consumer electronic products.

A two-step plasma process has been developed as a means of removing surface oxide layers from indium bumps used in flip-chip hybridization (bump bonding) of integrated circuits. This process has considerable commercial potential in that flip-chip ...
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Tool for Crimping Flexible Circuit Leads

A hand tool has been developed for crimping leads in flexible tails that are parts of some electronic circuits — especially some sensor circuits. The tool is used to cut the tails to desired lengths and attach solder tabs to the leads. For tailoring small numbers of circuits for special applications, ...
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Improved Assembly for Gas Shielding During Welding or Brazing

Inert gas is distributed evenly over the region surrounding the weld joint.

An improved assembly for inert-gas shielding of a metallic joint is designed to be useable during any of a variety of both laser-based and traditional welding and brazing processes. The basic purpose of this assembly or ...
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May 2009
Fabricating PFPE Membranes for Microfluidic Valves and Pumps
Fabricating PFPE Membranes for Capillary Electrophoresis
Linear Actuator Has Long Stroke and High Resolution
Installing a Test Tap on a Metal Battery Case
Apr 2009
Modal Vibration Analysis of Large Castings
Structural/Radiation-Shielding Epoxies
Mar 2009
Alternative Packaging for Back-Illuminated Imagers
Diamond Machining of an Off-Axis Biconic Aspherical Mirror
Laser Ablation Increases PEM/Catalyst Interfacial Area
Feb 2009
Composite Layer Manufacturing With Fewer Interruptions
Improved Photoresist Coating for Making CNT Field Emitters
Jan 2009
Improved Joining of Metal Components to Composite Structures
Machined Titanium Heat-Pipe Wick Structure
Dec 2008
Sealing and External Sterilization of a Sample Container
System for Removing Pollutants From Incinerator Exhaust
Nov 2008
Templates for Deposition of Microscopic Pointed Structures
Oct 2008
Making Superconducting Welds Between Superconducting Wires
Method for Thermal Spraying of Coatings Using Resonant-Pulsed Combustion
Sep 2008
Capillography of Mats of Nanofibers
Improved Gas Filling and Sealing of an HC-PCF
Thermal Spray Formation of Polymer Coatings
Aug 2008
Fabricating Large-Area Sheets of Single-Layer Graphene by CVD
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