Ranked #28 in Welding
Solders have given the designer of modern consumer, commercial, and military electronic systems a remarkable flexibility to interconnect electronic components. The properties of solder have facilitated broad assembly choices that have fueled creative applications to advance technology. Solder is the electrical and me- chanical "glue" of electronic assemblies. This pervasive dependency on solder has stimulated new interest in applica- tions as well as a more concerted effort to better understand materials properties. We need not look far to see solder being used to interconnect ever finer geo-... more