Working the Z axis
In the Z axis, as with other manufacturing stages, manufacturing systems need effective processes to meet the required fuctionality.
Part of Electrochemicals' pilot facility at Maple plain, demonstrating the Shadow® Direct Metalization Process.
Functionality needed from the PWB....
- High density
- Handling high frequency signals
- Optimizing the advantage of blind, burried and micro vias
- New Resin systems - high Tg, PTFE, BT cyanate ester
- Interconnection locations for off-board
... to be effective your process needs
- Effective surface finishing
- High yield
- Ease of analytical control
- Simple maintenance
- To be environmentally friendly
To all this, Electrochemicals lnc brings...
Electro-Brite E-Prep Desmear/Etchback- Range of cleaners, oxidizers and alkaline cleaning
- Effective on a wide range of polymers - BT, FR4 tetrafunctional and polyimide
- Patented solvent conditioner for optimum swelling of high Tg materials
- Micro porous hole wall ideal for electroless copper or SHADOW®
- Desmear epoxy dielectrics for optimum results in build-up technologies
Electro-Brite Electroless Copper 2060, 270
- Ideal fine grained crystal structure
- Stable, long bath life
- Unsurpassed interconnect reliability for multilayer applications
- Superior coverage on all PTH applications
The unique
SHADOW® comes first
Making holes conductive
- Direct copper to copper bond at interconnect
- Dramatically reduced machine footprint
- Rapid process, quick start up and few process steps
- Dramatic reduction in energy usage and support costs
- Environmentally friendly
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High Tg Resin (180 deg C) microroughened with E-Prep |
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Epoxy dielectric microroughened with E-Prep |
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Electroless copper 2001 |
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Test
our Electroless Copper 4000 Challenge! |
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SHADOW® |
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3 mil microvia processed with Shadow® |
in PWB manufacture
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