Prof. Attila Géczy

Budapest University of Technology and Economics 

Sustainable electronics are in the focus of research from the electron device level to the larger electronic assemblies and appliances. One possible path of turning the mindset to ecological and evironmentally friendly technologies is to revise the material set and adjust the current standards to alternative possibilities. PCBs are a significant part of the generated e-waste and a non-negligible aspect of our devices’ life cycle, so a credible path is to investigate the possibility of alternative composites and their end-of-life processing. Flax-reinforced, flame-retarded PLA can be a serious contender in the near future in the green electronics field, and the presentation is focusing on the recent advances, the possible applications and comparisons based on IPC and further standards, to show the potential of these substrates, and to present novel aspects of waste-PCB processing with the technique of bio-leaching.