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Electronics

Overview

Gold is a vital material in the modern electronics industry, ensuring the reliability of many products ranging from mobile phones to credit cards. More...

Gold Bonding Wire

Wire bonding is the method used to attach very fine gold wire from one connection pad to another, completing the electrical connection in an electronic device More...

Electroplating

Gold plating is a commonly used term to describe a thin gold coating on an object. In fact, gold can be deposited from solution by three similar processes. More...

Other Uses

Other significant uses of gold in electronics include thick and thin film gold paste applications, sputtered gold metallisations and gold-based solder alloys. More...

Recycling

Recycling of waste electronic goods (containing gold and other precious metals), at the end of their life, is becoming of increasing importance. More...

Gold Bulletin Articles

The Gold Bulletin archive contains a range of technical articles describing the electronic uses of gold in more detail:Electrical Contacts & Materials, Electrodeposition, Electroless Deposition, Electronics & Sensors

Responsible Gold Mining

Read more about the gold mining industry which supplies gold for a range of electronic components More...

Gold Innovations

Read ‘Gold Innovations’ – the blog that crosses the boundaries between research and the industrial application of gold technology.

Gold and Semiconductors

Read a new report on the use of gold in the semiconductor industry More...

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The blog that crosses the boundaries between research and the industrial application of gold technology

Inbetween meetings yesterday I managed to attend a few lectures here in (an extremely rainy!) Boston. Vince Rotello of UMass and Richard Lambert of Cambridge delivered the 2010 Langmuir lectures, both of which were excellent. Other interesting talks included Jin Zhang of UC Santa Cruz discussing his group’s work in the field of solar cell [...]

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