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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 16, 1997
Filed:
Aug. 29, 1996
Ho Sou Chen, Lebanon, NJ (US);
Sungho Jin, Millington, NJ (US);
Mark Thomas McCormack, Summit, NJ (US);
Lucent Technologies Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Abstract
According to the present invention, an article of manufacture is provided having at least one region which includes a lead-free solder composition. The lead-free solder composition comprises an alloy of at least 50 wt. % tin and 7-30 wt. % zinc. An effective amount of silver is added to increase the ductility of the resultant alloy at least 25% over the ductility of the binary eutectic tin-zinc alloy. In a further embodiment, the present invention provides alloys useful in articles comprising lead-free solder compositions. The alloys include at least (8.0+y) wt. % zinc, 0.25 y to 0.5 y wt. % silver and at least 50 wt. % tin where y is from 0.2 to 22.