Glossary

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The interconnect between a device/component and the printed circuit board.

Automotive Electronics Council

regarding the resource deposits
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massive solder in contrast to solder powder or paste

contract electronic manufacturer

creeping resistance

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the converse of "creeping resistance"

see CR

chip size package or chip scale package

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electrical and electronic equipment

Next Generation Environmentally-Friendly Soldering Technology - international integrated project on lead-free soldering, IMS project, with parts in Europe, Japan and Korea

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describe the new coefficient too

Electronic Industry Alliance

European Industry Association for Information Systems, Communication Technoogies and Consumer Electronics

EEE - Electrical and electronic equipment

electronic manufacturing service

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hot air leveling, HASL - hot air solder leveling

Heatsink Very-thin Quad Flat-pack No-leads

IPC ? Association Connecting Electronics Industries

Joint Electronic Device Engineering Council

Japan Green Procurement Survey Standardization Initiative

"Kriechwiderstand", German term for creeping resistance, see "CR"

Life cycle assessment

Pb-free

National Electronic Distribution Association (US)

National Electronics Manufacturing Initiative

original electronic manufacturer

original equipment manufacturer

Organic Solderability Preservatives

see lead-free

see 2nd level interconnect

printed circuit board, alternative to printed wiring board (PWB)

Platinum Group Metals

Person month, gender neutral and explicitly including the other, "better" 50 %;
politically more correct equivalent to man month

Definition from the WEEE directive

Printed wiring board, alternative to printed circuit board

Quotient of mass of material which remains available in the economic circle after recycling and the total mass input into this recycling process

Quotient of number of recycled PWBs which were produced in a certain year and total number of produced PWBs in that year

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DIRECTIVE 2002/95/EC OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 27 January 2003 on the Restriction of the use of certain Hazardous Substances in Electrical and Electronic Equipment

RoHS compliance includes materials compliance, but not the process and reliability requirements for lead-free soldering.
All components, board and solder material should be fulfil the requirements of §5 RoHS, including be lead-free (until the maximum concentration value (MCV))

revolutions per minute

room temperature

interconnections made with a filler metal with a lower
melting point than base metal

due to shrinking
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totally Pb-free

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EU - Directive on Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment 2002/96/EG

Contact angle of adhesive dropped onto a material indicates the material's wettability. The lower the contact angle, the more wettable is the surface.

single crystals, protruding from electroplated layers, originating from diffusion under the influence of compressive stress