Interconnection Group, Loughborough University

Aims

The aim of the group continues to be to carry out research and consultancy that supports the electronics industry in business globalisation and in its efforts to improve product and process design to achieve high yield and reliability.

This work is carried out in the overall context of the business. The group is committed to passing on knowledge through teaching. The work of the group addresses both strategic and technological issues related to the manufacture and design for manufacture of electronics products.

Work encompasses science based understanding of electronics manufacturing processes, computational modelling of complex electronics products and their manufacturing processes, non-conventional control of complex manufacturing processes, and business globalisation.

e-medic seeks to explore the technological and business potential of integrating advanced electronics and information technologies with improved drug formulations into non-invasive drug delivery devices, and their exploitation to maximum benefit in healthcare. A platform device is researched based upon a pulmonary delivery system that is flexible, programmable, and potentially will provide remote patient monitoring through a distributed healthcare information system.

This project focuses on the development of a lead-free joining technology using metal droplets. Technological developments must not overlook environmental health and safety concerns. Traditional joining methods have often used solders of Pb-Sn composition, which are now intended to be phased out. Thus, novel processing methods must be sought to overcome this problem and provide a cleaner more effective solution.