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What Is High-frequency PCB？

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What Is High-frequency PCB？

High-frequency PCBs usually provide a frequency range from 500MHz to 2 GHz, which can meet the needs of high-speed PCB designs, microwave, radiofre...
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Aluminum Printed Circuit Board

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Aluminum Printed Circuit Board

Aluminum PCB is one of the most widely used metal core PCBs, also called as MC PCB, aluminum-clad, or insulated metal substrate, etc. The base stru...
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Rigid-flex PCBs

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Rigid-flex PCBs

As the name implies, rigid-flex printed circuit boards(PCBs) are the composite boards of rigid boards and flexible boards. Most rigid-flex circuits...
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Flexible PCBs

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Flexible PCBs

Flexible PCBs (FPC) are the PCBs that can be bent or twisted without damaging the circuits, which means the boards can be bent freely to conform to...
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The art of stealing copper on a PCB（2）

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The art of stealing copper on a PCB（2）

  Copper Thieving specifically refers to the Thieving of Copper on the outer layer, which Thieving usually Thieving the Thieving current to make th...
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The art of stealing copper on a PCB（1）

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The art of stealing copper on a PCB（1）

  Copper Thieving literally refers to the Thieving of Copper, which is called equal-flow block or electroplating block, and refers to the Copper ba...
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What type of via hole plugging is recommended?

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What type of via hole plugging is recommended?

The preferred type of plugging for standard product (not including capped via hole) is IPC 4761 type VI filled and covered, with target being compl...
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What is a capped via hole?

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What is a capped via hole?

A capped via is when plating is added over the via hole so that the surface is fully metalized with a minimum copper / cap plating thickness of 5um...
Posted in FPC Flexible PCB, HDI PCB, PCB, PCB design, PCB fabrication, Rigid Flex PCB

What is the difference between adhesive and adhesiveless flex systems?

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What is the difference between adhesive and adhesiveless flex systems?

Builds that use adhesive systems rely on adhesive to bond the copper to the flex core. As such this adhesive layer along with full coverlay, penetr...
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What is the difference between semi-flex and rigid flex?

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What is the difference between semi-flex and rigid flex?

Semi flex is effectively a ‘standard’ multilayer PCB, built using specific types of FR4 that has been depth to a specific tolerance so that the res...
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What are the available structures for flex and rigid flex PCBs?

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What are the available structures for flex and rigid flex PCBs?

There are numerous, different structures available. The more common ones are defined below: Single sided flex (IPC-60103 type 1) Coverlay (polyimid...
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Are there different types of HDI features?

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Are there different types of HDI features?

The graphic below shows the main structures – type I, type II and type III as defined in IPC-2226. Type I. Defines a single microvia layer on eithe...
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