AMES, Iowa – Fifteen years ago, an environmentally-friendly solder developed by the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory made history as the first cost-effective, broadly useable alternative to ...

The US Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory is seeing increased interest in its patent non-toxic solder as new European Union legislation stands to impose limits on lead in electronic circuitry.

As the Eurpean Union moves toward a July 1 ban on products containing lead and other hazardous materials, a lead-free solder developed at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory is playing a ...

[Andy Brown] is a prolific hacker and ends up building a lot of hardware. About a year back, he built a reflow oven controller. The board he designed used a large number of surface mount parts. This ...