Copper bus bars are commonly used instead of wire for carrying high currents. [Dane] needed some bus bars for a project, but he was worried about corrosion. His solution was tin electroplating the bus ...

Advanced Plating Technologies has provided silver and tin plating, among many others, to the power transmission and distribution market since the 1950s. Over the past 10 years, the growth of aluminum ...

The electronics industry has been undergoing dramatic change as a result of environmental concerns over the use of lead (Pb) in component finishes. The availability of alternative platings is limited ...

This file type includes high resolution graphics and schematics when applicable. Tin whiskers are slim metallic filaments that emanate from the surface of tin platings (see the figure). These ...

[Marko] styles himself as a crazy chemist. His video showing a fast tin plating solution for PCBs (YouTube, see below) doesn’t seem so crazy. We will admit, though, it uses some things that you might ...