BANNOCKBURN, IL – Jeffrey Kukelhan, Dr. Polina Snugovsky and Jason Bragg, and Arnaud Grivon were winners of the Best Paper awards at IPC Apex this year.

Kukelhan’s “Copper Tin Intermetallic Crystals and Their Role in the Formation of Microbridges between the Leads of Hand Reworked Fine-Pitch Components,” took the US Best Paper honor, and Snugovsky and Bragg won International Best Paper for “Drop Test Performance of a Medium Complexity Lead-Free Board after Assembly and Rework.”

The Celestica paper was coauthored by Russell Brush, Eva Kosiba, Billy Lee, Marianne Romansky, Suthakaran Subramaniam and Michel Thomson, all from Celestica; Andrew Ganster, Crane Division NSWC; William Russell, Raytheon; Dennis Fritz, SAIC; Carol Handwerker, Sc.D., and Jonathan Tucker from Purdue University.

The other International Paper award went to Arnaud Grivon of Thales Corporate Services, for “Industrial PCB Development Using Embedded Passive and Active Discrete Chips Focused on Process and DfR.” Coauthors were Michel Brizoux, Dr. W.C. Maia Filho and E. Monier-Vinard, all from Thales, along with Johannes Stahr and Mike Morianz of AT&S.

Kukelhan is an engineer with BAE Systems. Snugovsky and Bragg are with Celestica, and Grivon is with Thales Corporate Services.

Russell Nowland, Alcatel-Lucent, was presented the US Honorable Mention award for “Telecommunication Case Studies Address Head-in-Pillow Defects and Mitigation through Assembly Process Modifications and Control.” Richard Coyle and Peter Read, both from Alcatel-Lucent, and George Wenger, from the Andrew Division of Commscope, coauthored the paper.        

Nearly 100 papers were submitted for consideration. Papers were evaluated on their technical content, originality, test procedures and data used to deduce conclusions, quality of illustrations and the clarity and professionalism of writing.

The event’s Technical Program Committee selected the winners through a ballot process.

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