... microvias, while photothermal ablation creates more debris in and around the microvia that must be removed. However, the debris is non-tenacious and is easily | PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS PLANT | removed by conventional cleaning techniques such as permangate desmear. Regardless of the ablation mechanism, high peak powers and short laser pulses give the best microvia | PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS PLANT | results. Each material has a unique ablation threshold, above which vaporization occurs for a given wavelength and laser fluence (energy/area). | MOST LASER-BASED SYSTEMS | | PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS PLANT | are typically configured for direct microvia formation, which means that each microvia is drilled one at a time at high speed. With this technique, the | PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS PLANT | size of the focused laser beam usually defines the size of the microvia or the drilling speed or both. UV lasers often produce the smallest | PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS PLANT | focal spots (5 to 20 microns in diameter), and when used to form larger vias, the laser beam can either be expanded or trepanned to | PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS PLANT | accommodate the larger diameter. With trepanning, the laser beam ...
[ Printed Circuit Boards Plant ]... the versatile system yields total process cost reduction Panel Plating a Flash of Copper The panels are online in a wet state transferred to | PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS PLANT | our automatic electrolytic copper plating lines to get a flasch of copper.. The panels are attached to plating racks. When the racks are moved to | PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS PLANT | the loading station, the system computer instructs the hoist to pick up the rack and begin the plating cycle. The copper plating time is approximately | PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS PLANT | one hour. Electrolytic copper of minimum thickness 12 microns is deposited on the surface of the panel and on the walls of the drilled holes. | PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS PLANT | This is achieved by applying an electric current to a cell comprising the panel (the cathode) and a set of copper bars (the anodes) suspended | PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS PLANT | in a conducting medium (the electrolyte). A plating history log is maintained on the shop floor control computer which assists the operator in making minor | PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS PLANT | adjustments to the plating current. Finally, the panels are rinsed and returned to the unload station. Sample ...
[ Printed Circuit Boards Plant ]... and lower for each dielectric layer. A CO2 laser can be used along with the UV DPSS in a dual-laser setup that combines the | PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS PLANT | ablation speed of CO2 on dielectric materials with the ability of UV DPSS to ablate copper. This procedure obviates the need for precise fluence control | PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS PLANT | of a single UV DPSS laser and capitalizes on the selective ablation thresholds of different materials at different wavelengths. The dual-laser approach therefore boosts panel | PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS PLANT | throughput by exploiting the advantages of both lasers and circumventing their limitations. Moreover, the dual-laser technique, like the other laser processes, requires only a single | PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS PLANT | panel run to complete all steps of microvia formation. The dual-laser technique illustrates the versatility of CO2 and UV DPSS lasers for high-volume microvia formation | PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS PLANT | over a broad range of materials and operating conditions. In fact, their adaptability has helped to establish these two laser types as industry workhorses in | PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS PLANT | applications from ...
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