Recent Progress in Pb-free Solders and Soldering Technology: Fundamentals, Reliability Issues and Applications

The implementation of Pb-free solder technology is making good progress in electronic industry. Further understanding on fundamental issues on Pb-free solders/processes is required to reduce reliability risk factors of Pb-free solder joints. Several reliability issues including thermal fatigue, impact reliability, IMC growth, spalling, void formation are reviewed for Pb-free solder joints. Several applications of Pb-free technology are discussed, such as Pb-free, CBGA, CuCGA, flip chips, and wafer bumping by IMS.