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Rain & Salt Fog Test Chamber update

Hastest Solutions Inc has recently manufactured their customized Rain & Salt Fog Test Chamber built according to MIL-STD 810G and ASTM B117 for the US Navy.

What is HAST Testing?

In effort to improve the reliability of products, many different industries, just to mention a few, including semiconductor, pharmaceutical, 

What is Salt Spray Testing?

A Salt Spray Test is an accelerated laboratory test providing a controlled corrosive environment to determine the rusting performance of a product in the field.

Sustainability

Sustainability is the capacity to endure. It is characterized by the increased success of a product after many cycles of usage leading to its success and popularity

Temperature and Humidity Testing

Temperature and Humidity tests establish how components and assemblies behave in harsh environments involving high temperatures and high relative humidity.

Reliability Tests of Ultrasonic Bonding Methods Using HAST and THB

Reliability is one of the most important questions in any application, on both the package (component) and the board (system) levels. The paper describes 

How to Select a HAST Chamber

A HAST CHAMBER is a Precision Scientific Instrument – It is NOT a run-of-the-mill Temperature and Humidity Chamber. It is a piece of testing equipment required to

A Comparison of HAST to Conventional THB Testing

The use of HAST (highly accelerated stress test) for reliability assessment of nonhermetic packages is driven by reliability improvements in plastic packaging

Electrochemical Migration...Under Highly Accelerated Stress Conditions

Land grid array sockets are used as separable interconnects between printed circuit boards and high I/O integrated circuit components. Metal-in-elastomer land grid 

Hastest Solutions Advantages

HAST (Highly Accelerated Stress Test) Articles:

HAST Applications: Acceleration Factors and Results for VLSI Components

Results and acceleration factors between several highly accelerated stress test (HAST) conditions and 85 °C / 85% relative humidity tests are given for NMOS

Highly Accelerated Stress Test (HAST) For Low-cost Flip Chip on Board Technology

Flip chip on board (FCOB) technology has been in widespread application. The reliability testing of solder-joints and the delamination between underfill and chip or

Comparison Testing of Shock vs. Vibration ESS Systems

The use of HAST (highly accelerated stress test) for reliability assessment of nonhermetic packages is driven by reliability improvements in plastic packaging and passivation materials

Periodic Maintenance and Calibration

Environmental chambers of all types are significant investments, and as such are expected to operate efficiently and reliably without errors for a long period of time.