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TAKING THE PAIN OUT OF Pb-REFLOW (PDF 600k)
Pb-free soldering is an emerging technology that many companies have begun to explore based on mandates from the European Union and the Japanese govenment to eliminate Pb from printed ciruit board assemblies.

LEAD-FREE SOLDERING (PDF 200K)
DOE Study to understand its affect on Electronic Assembly Defluxing

VOIDING (PDF 1MB)
Occurence and reliability issues with lead-free.

MEASURING TIN WHISKER PROPENSITY (PDF, 2.1MB)

LEAD-FREE AND MIXED ASSEMBLY SOLDER JOINT RELIABILITY TRENDS (PDF 800k)
A quantitative analysis of solder joint reliability data for lead-free Sn-Ag-Cu (SAC) and mixed assembly (SnPb + SAC) circuit boards based on an extensive, but non-exhaustive, collection of thermal cycling test results.

Last Updated:
May 17, 2006

Publisher: Megan Wendling