Lead-free Electronics: Overview

Lead-free Electronics

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1-44

  Ciocci, Richard ^a,c   Pecht, Michael ^b   Ganesan, Sanka ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c ASME   (United States)

Author keywords

Equipment directives; Lead free electronics; Lead free products; Legislation; Technical barriers

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864880491     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/047000780X.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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