Lead-free alloys for ecological solders manufacturing

Abstract

Although the European Union's directive about environment protection as WEEE and RoHS have been carried out in 2003, led solders are still in used in Serbia. In the aim to respect the European and world directives and laws, it is necessary to reduce a quantity of toxic element and to establish lead and cadmium free solders in production. In this paper it was presented lead-free alloys, which are used for ecological solders manufacturing and various applications.

Keywords

• ecological solders
• lead-free alloys
• silver
• gold
• tin
• indium