Solder Alternatives for the Transition to Flexible and Integrated Electronics Explained by IDTechEx
Solder, formerly based on lead but now primarily lead-free, offers the twin advantages of being low-cost and well-established.
- Solder, formerly based on lead but now primarily lead-free, offers the twin advantages of being low-cost and well-established.
- Furthermore, the reflow process assists with component alignment, with components being reorientated to minimize the surface energy of the solder droplet.
- They are thus highly unlikely to replace solder for conventional PCBs, but are predicted to increase their market share with the transition towards integrated and flexible electronics.
- Another promising ECA application is flexible hybrid electronics (FHE), a developing approach which can be regarded as taking the 'best-of-both' from conventional and printed electronics.