German laser specialist LPKF has developed and patented a plastic that can survive reflow soldering and which can act as a single-layer PCB. The company's polyimide material is impregnated with a ...

You have just completed the layout of your latest space-electronics’ project, simulated and verified the physical implementations of your circuits, and are now ready to email the stack details as well ...

Zuken has unveiled the CR-8000, a PCB design environment that looks to address industry’s changing design requirements when it comes to PCBs, such as high-density and high-speed, multi-board designs, ...

[Lorentio Brodeso]’s ‘LACED’ project offers one such method, using both chemical etching and a 5 Watt diode engraving laser to remove the soldermask, copper and FR4 fiberglass layers.

Many readers are certainly familiar with the process for home-etching of PCBs: it’s considered very straightforward, if a little involved, today. This was not the case in my youth, when I fir… ...

Layer 1, or the top layer, is described as a signal layer. The 0.0014-in.-thick layer is made of copper material; the copper amounts to about 1 oz. These parameters are valid for a board whose ...