Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive a disadvantage because it can lead to lower quality electrical connections – can be used to place components more tightly than they used to be placed due to the properties of lead-containing solders. For example, Motorola reports that their new RoHS wireless device assembly techniques are "...enabling a smaller, thinner, lighter unit." Their Motorola Q phone would not have been possible without the new solder. The lead-free solder allows for tighter pad spacing. Research into new alloys and technologies is allowing companies to release RoHS products that are currently exempt from compliance, "e.g." computer servers. IBM has announced a RoHS
Distributed element circuit led to wider applications. Distributed element circuits are those circuits designed using the distributed element model. This model is an alternative to the lumped element model in which the passive electrical elements of electrical resistance, capacitance and inductance are assumed to be "lumped" at one point in space in, respectively, a resistor, capacitor or inductor lumped component. The distributed element model is used when this assumption no longer holds and those quantities are considered to be distributed in space. The assumption breaks down when there is a significant time taken for electromagnetic waves to travel from one terminal of the