1. Gold-tin alloy (Au80Sn20): the ultimate solution in the field of high reliability. As the "king of performance" in the ...

Lead-free solder alloys have been around for as long as people have done soldering, with sources dating back about 5,000 years. Most of these alloys were combinations like copper-silver or silver-gold ...

Emil Otto is aiming at joining steel, stainless steel, brass and copper objects below 450°C with three tin-based soft-soldering pastes. “The soldering and tinning pastes do not require zinc chloride, ...

Tin prices have nearly doubled from a year ago and are on course for their biggest annual rise in over 30 years, stinging big users of the soldering agent such as electronics firms, utilities, solar ...

Tin has been one the year’s best performing metals. Prices are likely to move higher in 2017, thanks to a major ongoing shift in supply and demand. Tin has been used for thousands of years. In fact, ...

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 ...