An international team to study tin whisker growth mechanisms in Pb-free soldering has been agreed at a meeting in Tokyo. The team will be made up from soldering organisations in Europe, Japan and the ...

Judging by the number of e-mails Electronics Weekly receives each week, the legislation and timetables around the RoHS and WEEE Directives are still causing a lot of confusion. EW is inviting readers ...

The tin whisker phenomenon is a failure mode associated with a number of plated low-melting-point elements (tin, cadmium, and indium) used to promote good soldering. Recognized many years ago, the ...

A grooved whisker juts out from a tin film in a manner highly reminiscent of a human whisker. Whiskers have been reported to grow at rates ranging from 0.03 to 9 mm/year. Credit: Peter Bush/South ...

Manufacturers in the defense, aerospace and medical equipment industries need to get the lead back into their components. The move to lead-free parts has left the industries that are exempt from RoHS ...

Abstract: “Tin whiskers” is not an imaginative, fanciful term for some aspect of electronics manufacturing. Tin whiskers are real. They are microscopic conductive fibers emanating from pure tin ...

Solder is the conductive metal glue that one uses to stick components together. If you get the component and the PCB hot enough, and melt a little solder in the joint, it will stay put and conduct ...

As of July 1, 2006, electronics sold on the European market came under strict new rules set by a directive called "the restriction of the use of certain hazardous substances in electrical and ...

A doctoral student has discovered how and why tin whiskers grow. These hair-like fibers of metal grow out of the tin used as solder and coating on many electronic circuits. The presence of these ...