Lead-free soldering

Materials for Advanced Packaging

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 181-218

  Lee, Ning Cheng ^a  

^a INDIUM CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Lead free; Pb free; Reliability; SAC; SnAgCu; Solder; Soldering; Surface finish; Tin silver copper

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892822433     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-78219-5_5     Document Type: Chapter

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