| Chapter 1 | 9 |
| Pb-free Initiatives and Global Trends |
1.1 What is the Industry Size? | 10 |
1.2 What is the Industry Breadth? | 10 |
1.3 What you do is important | 10 |
1.4 Where is the Market? | 11 |
1.5 How about Electronics and the Environment? | 11 |
1.6 A Major Change? | 11 |
1.7 What is the WEEE Directive? | 12 |
1.8 List the Categories of Electronics Included | 12 |
1.9 What is the RoHS Directive? | 13 |
1.10 List the Categories of Electronics Included | 13 |
1.11 What are the RoHS Exemptions? | 14 |
1.12 So what does this mean? | 14 |
1.13 What are some of the Logistical Concerns? | 14 |
1.14 What are the steps you can take? | 15 |
1.15 What about China RoHS? | 15 |
1.16 What about USA RoHS? | 15 |
1.17 What are Japanese “Green” Products? | 16 |
1.18 Why is Pb-free is only a piece of RoHS Compliance | 16 |
| Chapter 2 | 17 |
| Pb-free Alloy Selection |
2.1 Solder as it is Today | 18 |
2.2 List the Desirable Pb-free Characteristics | 18 |
2.3 List the Pb-free Paste Options | 18 |
2.4 What is the impact on Paste Costs? | 19 |
2.5 What are Drop-in Solutions? | 19 |
2.6 List some of the Pb-free Paste Options | 20 |
2.7 What is the problem with 91Sn9Zn? | 20 |
2.8 What is the problem with 96.5Sn3.5Ag? | 21 |
2.9 How about SAC Alloys? | 21 |
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2.13 What are the SnAgBi Concerns? | 22 |
2.14 What looks like the Industry Choice? | 24 |
2.15 What are the SAC Concerns? | 25 |
2.16 What are the Things to Remember? | 26 |
| Chapter 3 | 27 |
| Is Pb-free a Good Thing? |
3.1 What are the Environmental Implications? | 28 |
3.2 List the Sources of Environmental Lead | 28 |
3.3 Why Target Pb in WEEE? | 28 |
3.4 What about Pb-Free Solder Alloys? | 29 |
3.5 What is The Decision? | 29 |
3.6 Is Pb-Free a good thing? | 30 |
| Chapter 4 | 31 |
| Pb-free Alloy Reliability |
4.1 Why worry about reliability? | 32 |
4.2 What about Thermal Cycling Performance? | 32 |
4.3 What about Thermal Fatigue for BGAs? | 33 |
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4.5 What does Isothermal Mechanical Cycling include? | 35 |
4.6 When is Out of Plane Bending a problem? | 36 |
4.7 Describe Mechanical Shock? | 37 |
4.8 Summarization of the technical considerations | 38 |
| Chapter 5 | 39 |
| Pb-free Components |
5.1 What do you need to know about Pb-free Components? | 40 |
5.2 What are the Component Finish Options? | 40 |
5.3 What about Sn Whiskers: Growth? 41 |
5.4 What about Sn Whiskers: Intermetallic Formation? | 41 |
5.5 What is Copper Diffusion: Increasing Whisker Growth? | 44 |
5.6 What is the Whisker Index? | 44 |
5.7 Explain about Sn Whiskers: CTE Mismatch | 45 |
5.8 What about Sn Whiskers: Other Causes? | 46 |
5.9 What about Sn Whiskers: Mitigation? | 46 |
5.10 What about Reliability of Various Component Finishes? | 46 |
5.11 How to make the switch | 47 |
5.12 How about Forward/Backward Compatibility? | 47 |
5.13 What about Component Suppliers? | 48 |
5.14 What are the Labeling Issues? | 48 |
5.15 What are Other Component Concerns? | 49 |
5.16 List Other Component Concerns | 50 |
5.17 What is the Cost Impact? | 51 |
| Chapter 6 | 53 |
| Pb-free Surface Finish |
6.1 Why the Surface Finish Requirements? | 54 |
6.2 What is the Industry Choice for Surface Finish? | 54 |
6.3 What about Pb-free HASL? (Hot Air Solder Level) | 55 |
6.4 What about ENIG? (Electroless Nickel Immersion Gold) | 55 |
6.5 What about using OSP? (Organic Solder Preservatives) | 56 |
6.6 What about using IAg? (Immersion Silver) | 56 |
6.7 What about using ISn? (Immersion Tin) | 57 |
6.8 Surface Finish Comparison | 58 |
6.9 Summary of different finishes | 59 |
| Chapter 7 | 61 |
| Failure Modes |
7.1 What is Conductive Anode Filament Growth (CAF)? | 62 |
7.2 What causes Tombstoning? | 63 |
7.3 What are the Tombstoning Rates? | 64 |
7.4 What can be done to Minimize Tombstoning? | 66 |
7.5 What about Mixed Alloys? | 67 |
7.6 What is Voiding? | 69 |
7.7 How do the Alloys Compare for Voiding? | 70 |
7.8 How can you prevent Voiding in Reflow? | 71 |
7.9 What causes Voids in Vias? | 72 |
7.10 What are the Inspection Issues? | 74 |
| Chapter 8 | 77 |
| Implementation |
8.1 What is the European Lead Free survey? | 78 |
8.2 What about the ELFNET Survey? | 78 |
8.3 What is the Current status of EU Pb-Free? | 80 |
8.4 Where is a Pb-Free Readiness Assessment Tool? | 81 |
8.5 What is the Pb-free RAT? | 81 |
8.6 WEEE/RoHS Experts are valuable | 84 |
8.7 What to Think about for your BOM? | 84 |
8.8 How do you Work with your suppliers? | 85 |
8.9 How to go about Choosing a new Paste? | 85 |
8.10 What percent are RoHS compliant suppliers? | 87 |
8.11 What are Homogenous Materials? | 89 |
8.12 How do you do Planning for Review? | 90 |
| Chapter 9 | 93 |
| Pb-Free Printing and Placement |
9.1 What is the Approximate Distribution of Process Related Defects? | 94 |
9.2 How Many Factors Affect your Print Quality? | 94 |
9.3 What is Motorola’s Process Criteria? | 94 |
9.4 How do you do a Paste Evaluation and Selection Strategy? | 95 |
9.5 What items are Related to your Paste Selection? | 96 |
9.6 What are Paste Responses? | 96 |
9.7 What is the Paste Evaluation? | 96 |
9.8 What’s the 12 Board Paste Evaluator? | 97 |
9.9 What are the Effects of Viscosity? | 97 |
9.10 What are the effects of Viscosity and Temperature? | 98 |
9.11 What is the Motorola Flux Tackiness Measurement? | 99 |
9.12 What is the effect on Solder Paste Stencil Life? | 99 |
9.13 What are the Effects of Short Stencil Life? | 99 |
9.14 What was the objective of the Motorola Stencil Printing Evaluation? | 100 |
9.15 What was the results of Response to Pause Test? | 100 |
9.16 What are the Effects of Poor Response to Pause? | 101 |
9.17 How do you go about Measuring Shear Thinning Effect? | 101 |
9.18 What is the Solder Paste resistance to Shear Thinning? | 102 |
9.19 Why worry about Solder Balls in Passive Assembly? | 102 |
9.20 What are Poor Gasketing results? | 103 |
9.21 Why the Importance of Wall/Pad Ratio? | 103 |
9.22 What changes for Stencil Design? | 103 |
| Chapter 10 | 105 |
| Pb-Free Reflow |
10.1 What is the Approximate Distribution of Process Related Defects? | 106 |
10.2 What is crucial for Pb-free Reflow? | 106 |
10.3 What are the (Old) RDRP Profiles? | 107 |
10.4 What changes for the (New) Convection Ovens? | 108 |
10.5 What is unique about the (Old) IR Oven Profile Design? | 108 |
10.6 What is different about the (New) Convection Oven Profile Design? | 109 |
10.7 What are the unique Profiles and Defect Mechanisms? | 109 |
10.8 Explain Defect Mechanism Analysis 1 | 109 |
10.9 Explain Defect Mechanism Analysis 2 | 110 |
10.10 Explain Defect Mechanism Analysis 3 | 110 |
10.11 Explaining Defect Mechanism Analysis 4 | 111 |
10.12 Explaining Defect Mechanism Analysis 5 | 111 |
10.13 Explaining Defect Mechanism Analysis 6 | 111 |
10.14 Explaining Defect Mechanism Analysis 7 | 112 |
10.15 Explaining Defect Mechanism Analysis 8 | 112 |
10.16 Reflow Profile Summary | 113 |
10.17 Recap of the Motorola Reflow Profile Evaluation | 113 |
10.18 What was the Coalescence? | 114 |
10.19 Compare Reflow Profile and Coalescence | 115 |
10.20 How about the Wetting? | 115 |
10.21 State Motorola’s Conclusion | 116 |
| Chapter 11 | 117 |
| Pb-Free Reliability Issues |
11.1 Understand the Reliability of Pb-free | 118 |
11.2 What was the Motorola Reliability Evaluation? | 118 |
11.3 What was the Motorola Test Vehicle? | 118 |
11.4 What was the Motorola Drop Evaluation? | 119 |
11.5 What was the Motorola Thermal Shock Evaluation? | 119 |
| Chapter 12 | 121 |
| Pb-Free Wave Soldering & Alternative Soldering Methods |
12.1 Which components get Wave Soldering? | 122 |
12.2 List some Pb-free Wave Challenges | 123 |
12.3 What is Tin Pest? | 123 |
12.4 When does Tin Corrosion occur? | 124 |
12.5 What are the industry Pb-free Wave Recommendations? | 124 |
12.6 What is crucial about Fluxing? | 125 |
12.7 List the Pb-free Wave Setup Rules of Thumb | 125 |
12.8 How do you Calculate Dwell Time? | 126 |
12.9 What is the Pin-in-Paste (PIP) Process? | 126 |
12.10 What are the PIP Concerns? | 126 |
12.11 How do you do the PIP Stencil Design? | 127 |
12.12 What are PIP Stencil Design Steps 1 & 2? | 127 |
12.13 What is PIP Stencil Design Step 3? | 128 |
12.14 What is PIP Stencil Design Step 4? | 128 |
12.15 Show some Common PIP Stencil Designs | 129 |
12.16 Show a Poor PIP Stencil Design | 129 |
12.17 What are Solder Preforms? | 129 |
12.18 What are some PIP Considerations? | 130 |
12.19 What to consider in PIP Solder Paste Selection? | 130 |
12.20 What is an option for PIP Stencil Printing? | 131 |
12.21 What about PIP Component Selection? | 131 |
12.22 State the Pb-free Wave & Alternative Soldering Methods Summary | 132 |
| Index | 133 |