Talk:Electronic packaging

Unreferenced
The article has MUCH improved since I tagged it for deletion. I will not contest this article's status any more, but please add references to the article. It appears as though this is not a "made-up" term, and now looks like a real encyclopedia article. However, we must provide references to third party sources for our information, per the wikipedia policy WP:V. If you have any questions, please go to the wikipedia guideline WP:CITE which will help you create and organize references in articles. Thank you all for your contributions, and if you have any questions, please come to User talk:Jayron32 to leave a comment on my talk page. --Jayron 32 12:20, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

I'm new at the Wikipedia side of things. It probably shows.

I didn't cite third-party sources for a couple of reasons.

First, I'm writing from personal experience. I'm an electronics engineer with almost 40 years of experience -- 50 years if you count vacuum tube ham equipment I built before college. I've designed hardware using most of those forms of packaging.

Second, I was trying to contribute what I could when I could, so the subject wouldn't end up getting completely neglected. In the cooperative spirit, I hope others will be able to improve this.

Frankly, I don't know where I would find publications on all those subjects. I learned mostly from other designers and from updating previous work. I was thinking of asking the marketing departments of a few of the companies where I've worked for pictures of products that illustrate some of these packaging methods. Does that help any? A bibliography would certainly help anyone who wants to actually learn to design electronic equipment, as opposed to just knowing the general shape of the subject.

And, yes, it's not a made-up term. Packaging is what we call it, at least in the U.S.

Myllivolt 05:55, 10 December 2006 (UTC)Myllivolt

So, I followed up and started reading the Wikipedia policies, and that led me to Google book search. "Electronic packaging" produced several hundred hits. Would you like me to pick out some of the general books on the subject and list them, when I have time to work on the article again?

Myllivolt 06:50, 10 December 2006 (UTC)Myllivolt


 * I left some notes on your talk page. The google book search is good.  If you work in the field, I assume you have access to texts that describe everything you have written.  You should generally always write from references rather than personal experience.  Personal experience is great and helpful, but also be aware that wikipedia has a policy against original research (click blue link for more information).  I would make sure that each section is footnoted with an inline reference that cites a book or journal or URL that you coan find further information about that particular term.  I would recommend you find a well referenced article or use WP:CITE as a guideline.  Again, if you have specific references to texts where we can find all of this information, and you don't know how to "do it right" I can help you.  Just do the best you can, let me know where you have trouble, and I can help clean things up.  If you want a sample article that shows how to reference, check out one I wrote, Standard Oil of Kentucky.  Click "edit this page" but don't save changes.  Just look how the mark-up works.  I don't use the  templates, which in some ways are a shortcut, but in other ways are confusing to follow.  I think my references are pretty easy to follow.  This article shows how to do direct references (with inline footnote style) and indirect references (further reading).  I hope this is of some help. --Jayron 32  19:15, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

I'll see what I can do about finding references for some of the packaging technologies, but that's going to be a tall order. I've never seen publications dealing with that sort of thing. Possibly I can find textbooks on things like sheet metal fabrication, but not necessarily written in the context of electronic packaging. Capabilities brochures published by vendors could give an idea of what can be done, and demonstrate the existence of an industry offering these capabilities. A typical electronics company's library concentrates on component manufacturers' catalogs and some general professional books at the theoretical level. I can probably lay my hands on some commercial product literature that illustrates the use of these different packaging methods, and that should at least show in a verifible way that they exist and are used in the commercial world. What do you think?

Myllivolt


 * I think its a great start. At this point something is far better than nothing.  Again, if you need any help, let me know! --Jayron 32  20:07, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

Why "potting"?
How did "potting" get its name? Dave (talk) 20:14, 4 December 2009 (UTC)

Glop top edit request
Could another editor modify the section on "glop top" packaging to include the following:

Surface-mounted LEDs are frequently sold in COB configurations. In these, the individual diodes are mounted in an array that allows the device to produce a greater amount of luminous flux with greater ability to dissipate the resulting heat in an overall smaller package than can be accomplished by mounting LEDs, even surface mount types, individually on a circuit board.

Thank you. Also, I do not have a conflict of interest. KDS4444 (talk) 09:03, 22 August 2017 (UTC)
 * ✅, thank you for your contribution. Altamel (talk) 22:12, 23 August 2017 (UTC)