Patent ID: 7628871

Claim:
An article of manufacture, comprising: a substrate; a component; and a bulk metallic glass solder material physically coupling the substrate to the component, wherein the bulk metallic glass solder material has an alloy composition which undergoes glass formation when the solder material is cooled from at or above the melting temperature (T m ) to at or below the glass transition temperature (Tg) at a cooling rate below approximately 10 2 ° C./second, and wherein the bulk metallic glass solder material comprises an alloy including at least one of tin-indium including 45-60 wt. % tin, tin-zinc including 80-92 wt. % tin, tin-nickel including 95-99.9 wt. % tin, tin-copper including 95-99.9 wt. % tin, tin-silver including 90-98 wt. % tin, tin-aluminum including 95-99.9 wt. % tin, tin-arsenic including 95-99.9 wt. % tin, tin-gold including 80-95 wt. % tin, tin-cadmium including 60-70 wt. % tin, tin-dysprosium including 95-99 wt. % tin, tin-magnesium including 80-90 wt. % tin, tin-lead including 55-70 wt. % tin, tin-thallium including 50-65 wt. % tin, indium-bismuth including 60-70 wt. % indium, indium-zinc including 97-99 wt. % indium, indium-nickel including >99 wt % indium, indium-copper including >99 wt %, indium-silver including 95-99 wt. % indium, and indium-gold including >99 wt %, indium-cadmium including 60-70 wt. % indium, and indium-gallium including 20-30 wt. % indium.