Technical Library | 2015-12-31 15:19:28.0
Today's consumer electronic product are characterized by miniatuization, portability and light weight with high performance, especially for 3G mobile products. In the future more fine pitch CSPs (0.4mm) component will be required. However, the product reliability has been a big challenge with the fine pitch CSP. Firstly, the fine pitch CSPs are with smaller solder balls of 0.25mm diameter or even smaller. The small solder ball and pad size do weaken the solder connection and the adhesion of the pad and substrate, thus the pad will peel off easily from the PCB substrate. In addition, miniature solder joint reduce the strength during mechanical vibration, thermal shock, fatigue failure, etc. Secondly, applying sufficient solder paste evenly on the small pad of the CSP is difficult because stencil opening is only 0.25mm or less. This issue can be solved using the high end type of stencil such as Electroforming which will increase the cost.
Technical Library | 2019-10-24 06:29:59.0
Making your novel electronic item design ready for mass fabrication and printed circuit board assembly consists of a lot of steps as well as risks. I will provide a few recommendations about how to neglect pricey errors and how to reduce the time to promote your novel item designs. You can hire printed circuit board assembly services for this. As soon as you have accomplished your product as well as printed circuit board design, you wish to get started developing prototypes prior to you commit to big fabrication volume. A lot of design software packages, for instance, PCB layout design software, as well as an industrial design software program, possess simulation potentials incorporated. Carrying out a simulation facilitates curtailing numerous design mistakes prior to the first prototype is developed. In case you are developing an intrusive item, you might desire to think about a modular design wherein all of the chief functionalities are situated in individual modules. All through your testing, you could then swap modules that don’t cater to the design limits. Spinning individual modules would be swifter and more cost-effective in comparison to spinning a complete design. Counting on the design intricacy, you can mull over manually mounting printed circuit board elements to bank dollars. Nonetheless, for medium to big intricacy this procedure likely to be very time taking, typically in case you wish to create numerous prototypes. Hence it makes sense thinking about a contract manufacturer for the assembly. Whilst running miniature quantity fabrication runs, the fabrication setup expenditure will usually control the by and large prototype constructs expenditure. Whilst seeking a subcontractor, it is finest to choose a vendor that focuses on prototype builds to reduce the cost. Prototype printed circuit board fabricators characteristically join the circuit boards of a number of clients which efficiently shares the setup expenditure in the midst of some customers. The disadvantage is that you would characteristically only be able to want among numerous standard printed circuit board material thicknesses as well as sizes. Apart from choosing a supplier with low setup expenditure, choosing a firm that would moreover be capable to manage your whole fabrication runs curtails mistakes because switching fabricators have the chance of errors owing to a specific supplier interpreting fabrication design data in a different way. This manner your design is already translated into the particular machine data that implies little or no setup expenditure for your final fabrication. A few PCB manufacturers also provide printed circuit board design services that are awesome plus if you do not possess experience with the design. Moreover, these vendors would be capable to help you in case there are issues with your design folders and be capable to detect issues prior to the fabrication.
Technical Library | 2023-06-02 14:13:02.0
This work examines the use of dual-material fused filament fabrication for 3D printing electronic componentsand circuits with conductive thermoplastic filaments. The resistivity of traces printed fromconductive thermoplastic filaments made with carbon-black, graphene, and copper as conductive fillerswas found to be 12, 0.78, and 0.014 ohm cm, respectively, enabling the creation of resistors with valuesspanning 3 orders of magnitude. The carbon black and graphene filaments were brittle and fracturedeasily, but the copper-based filament could be bent at least 500 times with little change in its resistance.Impedance measurements made on the thermoplastic filaments demonstrate that the copper-based filamenthad an impedance similar to a copper PCB trace at frequencies greater than 1 MHz. Dual material3D printing was used to fabricate a variety of inductors and capacitors with properties that could bepredictably tuned by modifying either the geometry of the components, or the materials used to fabricatethe components. These resistors, capacitors, and inductors were combined to create a fully 3Dprinted high-pass filter with properties comparable to its conventional counterparts. The relatively lowimpedance of the copper-based filament enabled its use for 3D printing of a receiver coil for wirelesspower transfer. We also demonstrate the ability to embed and connect surface mounted components in3D printed objects with a low-cost ($1000 in parts), open source dual-material 3D printer. This work thusdemonstrates the potential for FFF 3D printing to create complex, three-dimensional circuits composedof either embedded or fully-printed electronic components.
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