Circuit World: Volume 9 Issue 4

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Table of contents

Health and Safety in Soft Soldering

D. Courtney

The health and safety of those involved to some degree in soft soldering can be subject to the effects of solder, flux, solderable enamels and solvents. The lead content of solder…

Observations on the Growth and Impact of Intermetallic Compounds on Tin‐Coated Substrates

M.E. Warwick, S.J. Muckett

Tin and solder coatings interact with substrates commonly used in the electronics industry to produce layers of intermetallic compounds at temperatures above and below the melting…

Multilayer Presses, Loading Plant and Handling Equipment

The manufacture of multilayer circuit boards demands a press possessing a number of different characteristics that have a bearing on the accuracy and quality of the finished…

Industry news

A new post, that of Export Manager, has been created at PMD Chemicals Ltd, Coventry.

New products

Fry's Metals Ltd. are marketing a new range of soldering fluxes, the Series 900, for use in the soldering of printed circuits by automatic wave, drag or similar soldering methods…

Printed circuits, ‘Quo Vadis’?

‘478’; that is the latest figure for established Printed Circuit manufacturers in the UK with an estimated work force of some 16,000. Again from an output of about £30 million in…

ICT News

The Annual General Meeting was held on Wednesday, 8th June at Brunei University Uxbridge as planned, being attended by some 40 members. This year no Brunei symposium had been…

Outgassing of Solder Joints: ‘Causes and Cures?’

S. Jones, P. Starkey

Financial and commercial pressures have led to the increasing trend for PCB users to want to reduce or eliminate rework after mass soldering. Whilst the phenomenon of outgassing…

Cover of Circuit World

ISSN:

0305-6120

Online date, start – end:

1974

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Associate Professor Pooya Davari