A short review: properties of superconducting solder

Development of electronic devices were moving towards miniaturization, multifunction and increasingly specific service environment of solder interconnects, where this drive to the higher requirements on the solder properties. Without solder, it would be impossible to produce the infinite electronic devices that define the 21st century. Hence, solder is important in the design and engineering process. This review paper was summarized on the literature of the low-temperature solder systems for superconducting solder materials, which provide further theoretical basis for the study of superconducting solder of electronic and aerospace applications. Pb-Bi system is the most satisfactory solder as a superconducting solder, but due to the restrictions of the lead usage, so new Pb-free superconducting solder need to be invented. Of those Pb-free superconducting materials had been studied, the Sn-In-Bi ternary solder system show the greatest superconducting properties as compared to other Pb-free superconducting solder where TC = 6.9 K, HC2 (4.2 K) = 0.18 T and JC (4.2 K, 0.01 T) = 1.3 × 108 A/m2 respectively. © Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd.