The demand for portable electronics keeps increasing, and there is a need to produce more compact devices with ever-increasing capabilities. Engineering solutions that combine functionality with ...

The last few years have seen great strides in budget printed circuit board manufacturing. These days you can have boards made in a week for only a few dollars a square inch. Flexible PCBs still tend ...

Flex PCBs have been a key enabler of modern high density electronics, but achieving this density requires thinner layers and finer lines. Conventional three-layer flex circuits comprised of copper, ...

Advantages and applications of ultra-thin flexible PCBs. Materials used in ultra-thin flexible PCBs. As the name suggests, ultra-thin flexible PCBs are much thinner than standard PCBs, as well as ...

Orbotech, a KLA company, has announced two new roll-to-roll (R2R) manufacturing solutions for flexible printed circuit (FPCs), enabling the design and mass production of new generations of electronic ...

Senior Technology Editor Bill Wong talks with Elecrow’s Jarvan Hu about the development and manufacturing side of flexible PCBs, and the role his company plays in such efforts. Printed-circuit-board ...

The two new series of solutions are the drum-based Orbotech Infinitum™ for R2R direct imaging, and the Orbotech Apeiron™ for flex R2R and sheet-by-sheet panel UV laser drilling. "Based on the insights ...

Flexible PCBs, also known as flex circuits or flexible printed circuit boards, are designed using flexible dielectric base materials such as polyimide or polyester films. These materials allow the ...

One of the materials used in making flexible PCBs, polyimide, has fallen in short supply due to expanding flexible PCB applications, according to sources at Taiwan flexible PCB material makers. The ...