The European Union's Restriction of certain Hazardous Substances (RoHS) initiative to reduce the use of lead (Pb) is driving the electronics industry to consider alternatives to tin-lead alloys in ...

Herndon, Va. — The National Electronics Manufacturing Initiative's (NEMI's) Tin Whisker User Group is offering the electronics industry a revised set of proposed recommendations for tin whisker ...

An international team to study tin whisker growth mechanisms in Pb-free soldering has been agreed at a meeting in Tokyo. The team will be made up from soldering organisations in Europe, Japan and the ...

Paul Whytock reports on a development that cuts the tin whisker problem in lead-free package designs. The well worn but nevertheless important story of microscopic whisker growth on tin was given a ...

Engineers have fabricated and tested a large-scale model of a harbor seal's whisker, and identified a mechanism that may explain how seals sense their environment and track their prey. Harbor seals ...