AMES, Iowa – Fifteen years ago, an environmentally-friendly solder developed by the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory made history as the first cost-effective, broadly useable alternative to ...

As the Eurpean Union moves toward a July 1 ban on products containing lead and other hazardous materials, a lead-free solder developed at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory is playing a ...

Researchers in the Ames Laboratory at Iowa State University are taking advantage of a movement to get the lead out. Senior metallurgist Iver Anderson says they’ve developed a solder that uses tin, ...

Flexible printed circuit (FPC) coverlays are meant to overlay and protect the fine circuits, giving them flexibility and sheltering them from damage by temperatures, humidity, pollutants and erosive ...

BERKELEY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has developed a compact, robust, and low-cost method for interconnecting printed circuit boards (PCBs) without ...