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 ...

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 ...

This file type includes high resolution graphics and schematics when applicable. Tin whiskers are slim metallic filaments that emanate from the surface of tin platings (see the figure). These ...

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 ...

Budget cuts at industry OEMs and a "ho hum" attitude at the Department of Defense (DoD) may allow tin whiskers to form in electronics systems, according to a Lockheed Martin engineer and a retired DoD ...