Flexible Circuits Printed Articles
The Fab Line Presents news briefs from the electronics industry as of March 20, 2000. Information on International Sematech's research on dielectric films; Purchase of Tegal diode etch tools by Winbond Electronics Corp.; Features of Sheldahl Incorporated's ComClad line of laminates for semirigid or flexible circuits.
PWBs And Flex Approach $35B Reports on the world production of rigid printed wiring boards (PWB) and flexible circuits in 1998. Japan's global market for PWB; Market share of other countries; Statistical data presented.
Flexible Circuits: A State Of The Art Review Explores the progress of the growth in the application of flexible printed circuits in the electronics industry. Need for critical levels of reliability, low weight and high density circuits; Use of a technology called Regal-flex to yield high integrity flex-rigid multilayer circuits with layer counts above eight; Design considerations.
PCB Innovations In Automotive Electronics - The Flexible Drive Focuses on the automotive application of flexible printed circuits. Benefits of the planar construction of flexible circuits; Factors limiting the application of flexible circuits in motor cars; Key factors in designing flexible circuits; Material selection; Examples of automotive applications.
The Shape Of Things To Come Reports on York, Pennsylvania-based Topflight Corp.'s custom-created internal components for electronic systems assemblies' achievement of die-cut and laser-cut accuracies. Development of components for extremely high-temperature operations; Creation of flexible circuits and sensors generating low-voltage activation signals. INSET: Innovations.
Density Forces A Bend In Contacts Part IV. Discusses the reinvention of flexible circuits for application in high-density micro-packages resulting to segment growth of printed-circuit-board business. Films which has dominated as circuit base materials; Addition of copper in flexible circuits applications; Multiplication of automotive applications for flexible circuits. INSETS: Flexible interconnects on rigid growth, by Thomas Goodman.
Flex Gaining Favor In Chip Package Realm Focuses on the increasing usage of flexible circuit boards. Applications of the flex circuitry; Materials used in flex circuitry; Advantages of using flex circuits.
Boards Take Density Jump Reports that the board industry examined the changes in both the technology and the market of printed-circuit boards during the Technology and Marketing Research Council (TMRC) annual meeting. Changes in circuit-board technology; Increase in the sales value of the boards; Production growth of flexible circuit boards in United States; Importance of thin circuits in the printer boards.
Flex Circuits Branch Out Focuses on developments in flexible circuits for advanced microelectronics. Flexcon '96 conference; TechSearch International's report on expanding markets and solid revenue growth; Joint paper by Lockheed-Martin's Government Electronics System and General Electric's Corporate Research and Development Center; Chip-on-flex (COF) technology; Electro Scientific Industries; Amkor Electronics BGA package.
Computers Lead Printed Wiring Board Market Presents a graph showing the worldwide production of printed-wiring boards and flexible circuits in 1995.
Flex Circuit Solutions Coming On Strong Reports on a report from TechSearch International showing advancements in flexible circuit technology. Features of flexible circuits; Comment by Jan Vardaman, president of TechSearch; Forecasts on the production trends in the circuits.
Worldwide Flex Circuit Production Reports on the projected growth of worldwide production of flexible circuits by the year 2000. Electronics applications of flexible circuits.
Board Density Soaring Describes how manufacturers of printed circuit boards are producing thinner, lighter boards. International Business Machines Corp.'s surface-laminar circuits; Fine-line flexible circuits.
Flexible Circuits Fit Most Applications Describes the developments in the polymer-based electronic components and anisotropic adhesives used in direct die attach. Expansion of polymer-based flexible circuit production; Applications of flexible circuits; Innovations in polymer-based circuitry; Differences between standard and polymer-based flexible circuit manufacturing; Polymer-based circuit process.
Sheldal, Mentor Ally In Board Move Informs that Sheldahl Inc. and Mentor Graphics Corp. are working together to move Sheldahl's high-density flexible-circuit-board technology into the marketplace. Discussion of the role of a consortium established by Arpa, the Advanced Research Projects Agency; ViaGrid technology.
Flexible Boards Represent New Twist Discusses the increased use of flexible circuit board technology in the design engineering sector. Surge in demand from computer, communications and automotive applications; Prior technology failure to grow during the initial introduction of portable computers; Contribution of PCMCIA cards in usage increase.
Flex Board Support Grows Reports on the growth of the market for flexible circuit boards. Need for an affordable quick-prototyping technique because the `rough-and-ready' techniques used to prototype rigid boards cannot be used; Efforts by Direct Imaging Inc., System Two, Automated Systems Inc. and Parlex Corp.
Flexible Circuits Are Easier To Make Focuses on flexible printed circuits. Range of applications; Advantages over other materials; Features; Design; Assembly process.
New MCM Technique Offers Thin 3D Chip Arrays Reports on Integrated System Assemblies' (ISA) development of a multilayer, multichip module (MCM) technology that eliminates solder and wire bonding. Process' similarity to flexible circuit production; Thinning of dice before assembly; Suitability for applications involving high pincount and high-density I/O.