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Suppliers to the PCB Industry with a huge range of products including copper clad laminates, drill boards and consumables.
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JX Nippon engages in the development of non-ferrous metals that include copper, gold, and silver. It also manufactures electro-deposited and treated rolled copper foils that are used in PCBs.
Bob Willis videos show you How to Do It each month. This month we talk about adhesion testing like copper foil, plated copper on PCBs or conformal coating adhesion to board assemblies. Adhesion testing can be used for many different materials and in
Tachyon-100G laminate materials are designed for very high-speed digital applications up to and beyond speeds of 100 Gb/s. Tachyon 100-G materials exhibit exceptional electrical properties that are very stable over a broad frequency and temperature
A high speed micro via drilling system, the GS-600 incorporates a dual laser system for the highest throughput and hole quality. Capable of producing up to 900 holes/second, the hole diameters can range from 0.001" to 0.010". The GS-600 is compatib
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5N Plus produces indium in pure metal, chemical and low melting point alloy forms for use in electronics, solar cells and optics. Indium is essential in forming transparent electrodes from indium tin oxide (ITO) in liquid crystal displays (LCD) and t
Technical Library | 2017-11-22 12:38:51.0
The use of copper foils laminated to polyimide (PI) as flexible printed circuit board precursor is a standard practice in the PCB industry. We have previously described[1] an approach to very thin copper laminates of coating uniform layers of nano copper inks and converting them into conductive foils via photonic sintering with a multibulb conveyor system, which is consistent with roll-to-roll manufacturing. The copper thickness of these foils can be augmented by electroplating. Very thin copper layers enable etching fine lines in the flexible circuit. These films must adhere tenaciously to the polyimide substrate.In this paper, we investigate the factors which improve and inhibit adhesion. It was found that the ink composition, photonic sintering conditions, substrate pretreatment, and the inclusion of layers (metal and organic) intermediate between the copper and the polyimide are important.
Technical Library | 2013-03-28 16:18:22.0
For the last couple of years, the main concerns regarding the electrical performance of blank PCB boards were impedance and ohmic resistance. Just recently, the need to reduce insertion loss came up in discussions with blank board customers (...) The paper describes the test vehicle and the testing methodology and discusses in detail the electrical performance characteristics. The influence of the independent variables on the performance characteristics is presented. Finally the thermal reliability of the boards built applying different copper foils and oxide replacements was investigated.
Technical Library | 2013-04-25 11:42:01.0
Specification and control of surface roughness of copper conductors within printed circuit boards (PCBs) are increasingly desirable in multi-GHz designs as a part of signal-integrity failure analysis on high-speed PCBs. The development of a quality-assurance method to verify the use of foils with specified roughness grade during the PCB manufacturing process is also important... First published in the 2012 IPC APEX EXPO technical conference proceedings.
