Archive for June, 2020

14-Year Anniversary Celebration of Best Technology-Thank you!

Sunday, June 28th, 2020

We are elated to announce that Best Technology has recently completed 14 years of its glorious journey. Every small step has been worth celebrating. On June 26, 2020, our founder, Peter, Emily, group leaders and all the employees spent this unforgettable festival together.  

Best Technology Team
Best Technology Team

On Best Technology successful journey, Peter opines- “These past 14 years have been a period of growth and a learning experience for us as we went through several trials and errors till we deliver successful business. Today we are proud of the fact that our employees can make great progress day by day after training with us and feel confident taking on tough project-related challenges,thanks for all the endeavour from employees and thanks for the great support from our suppliers and customers. Best Technology’s continuous development can not do without them.”

We have come a long way from 2006 when we started off with just 1 people(Peter). Today we are proud to announce that we have nearly 100 employees and many sister companies spread all over China mainland and also have customers in over 150 countries around the world.

number of employees
number of employees

From above, it is evident that there has been a staggering growth in the number of employees in the span of 14 years. This enhanced employee strength has built the roadmap to Best Technology’s success.

annual sales volume
annual sales volume

The above graph presents our company’s growth against the years 2006 to 2020. It can be seen that the growth rate is very high from 2006($8000) to 2019($6560,000). At this year 2020, Best Technology still keeps growing with increasing sales volume in spite of COVID-19 outbreak.

Best Technology’s unique journey has been a brick-by-brick progress and has entailed years of  efforts. Our company’s commitment in becoming world class distinctive solution of printed circuit board and metal domes in 2025 has paved the way to the series of milestones achieved. These are equally appreciated by the correct leadership of our chairman, Peter.

The primary aim of our company has been to equip the professionals with all possible accoutrements to tackle on-job challenges. Today’s ever changing face of businesses demands deeper knowledge, quality, and on-time delivery. Customers are always looking out for continuous and improved delivery. The best means to achieve the same is to keep improving.

14-year anniversary
14-year anniversary

We will continue our journey towards innovating the new ways of learning, delivering excellence to the customers and lending a hand to achieve professional goals.

What’s more, Best Technology’s 14th-year anniversary celebration is a solemn procession of efforts and dedication of the trainers and staffs who have spent their quality time to provide the best services and meet more expectations of the ever evolving PCB world.

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In order to reduce the cost, can SinkPad PCB use aluminum base instead copper base for heat dissipation?

Wednesday, June 24th, 2020

SinkPad PCB is a type of Copper base PCB used in thermoelectric separation application. It generally used for high power LED, the pad of LED touch the copper base directly, so that the heat generated by LED will dissipate quickly, which can achieve the best heat dissipation and conduction.

sinkpad gerber
sinkpad gerber
sinkpad pcb
sinkpad pcb

In another words, it is a technology that require to increase the path of the LED pad to the copper base to accelerate the heat emission from the base material. The copper base is vital while it also cost higher.

Then in order to lower cost, can SinkPad PCB use aluminum base instead copper base for heat dissipation?

The answer is NO. As you can see the below manufacturing steps, the SinkPad will etch the copper base into convex platform with Copper Etching Solution, then hollow out the Double Layer FR4 PCB, and do lamination with the convex platform.

sinkpad pcb manufacturing steps
sinkpad pcb manufacturing steps

However, regarding of current technical conditions, since aluminum or aluminum alloy cannot directly react with acid, the reaction process is too complex and difficult to control, which will increase the difficulty of etching the LED pad platform. Considering the scrap rate, the process of etching LED pad platform with aluminum is more complex and the overall cost is higher.

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Why don’t use BeO as substrate to make DBC ceramic PCB?

Monday, June 22nd, 2020

It is widely known that BeO with high thermal conductivity (200-250W/m.k). High dielectric constant 6-7 (0.1MHz) and dielectric loss tangent is 10-4 (0.1GHz), extremely high working temprature. It is ideal material for ceramic PCB, lots of engineers want to use it as DBC ceramic PCB substrate.

But it is not popular in ceramic PCB market, comparing with Al2O3, AIN, Si3N4, or ZrO2, as the powder of BeO is extremely poisonous.

The poison gas is produced by the reaction between oxygen, Cu and BeO under 1065-1085 degrees Celsius, so it is limited to make cooper on BeO substrate, it has caused ALN (Aluminium Nitride) is becoming more and more popular.

Right now, only few countries are using BeO to make ceramic PCB, such as USA, Russia and China. USA had biggest capability to make BeO , and here in China, there’re still some companies to make BeO raw material and among them, a few companies to produce direct copper bonded (DCB) on BeO because of environment limitation.

Though BeO is not popular for DBC technology, but it is feasible for thick film technology, because when the mentalization of Ceramic PCB, the conductor (Au or AgPd) on BeO substrate was made by silk-screen printing, and drying temperature is only around 850C, no need to under high temperature environment, so there is no chemical reactions, no environment issue.

Below the thick film ceramic PCB manufacturing process for your reference.

https://www.bestpcbs.com/products/thick-film-ceramic-pcb-manufacturing-process.htm

Here is the photo of BeO with AgPd conductor.

BeO with AgPd conductor
BeO with AgPd conductor

Welcome to contact us if you have better idea, or different comments on BeO ceramic PCB, communation will make us becoming better and better.

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How to clean the PCB assembled boards after soldering?

Friday, June 19th, 2020

Best Technology is a full turn-key assembly service company, we can supply the assembled board with very nice and clean surface.

Do you want to know how we control the cleaning process of PCBA? We would like to share the full cleaning process.

As we know, flux is used when soldering electrical components to a printed circuit board.

After assembly process finished, we need to remove all the unnecessary flux paste or other solder flux/ residue in order to avoid any quality issue.

Although it is a simple work, but to prepare some tools and preparation is necessary and important. Like wash board water, dust-free cloth, brush,Tweezers, static bracelets, finger gloves

Here is the how the cleaning process we made:

Step1:  

Use brush to brush the solder joint and solder flux on the soldered PCB. Applying some alcohol or acetone onto the brush, do not use too much pressure, as this may cause the solder point to break. Repeat the procedure as necessary, to remove remaining flux residue on the PCBA.

PCB assembly
Step1: Brush the solder joint and solder flux on the soldered PCB

Step2:

Wipe with a clean dust-free cloth to clean the assembled PCB.

Keep board clean and tidy to make sure no impurities and finger marks. Do the same process for bottom side.

PCB assembly
Step2:Wipe with a clean dust-free cloth to clean the assembled PCB.

Step3:

When above step finished, keep the board for an extra day to let the board dry enough before packing. Best QC guys will do final inspection for the finger prints under light. this will be helpful to check the cleaning result further.

PCB assembly
Step3:  final inspection for the finger prints under light

Step4:

Finally, use dust-free cloth to do the final cleaning and let the board dry and clean enough before package.

PCBA Cleaning process
Step4: use dust-free cloth to do the final cleaning.

Above are the process for how we clean the assembled boards.

Best Tech is a very professional manufacturer in printed circuit board and assembly. We clean each of assembled boards as the procedure we showed above.

If you are interesting to know more process for how we control the quality for the PCB assembled boards, contact us at any time, we will show you more.

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What kind of finishing recommended for the extra thin FR4 PCB

Thursday, June 18th, 2020

As we know, the extra thin PCB means the thickness of printed circuit board is more thin than normal PCB, which is refer to a thickness smaller than 0.4mm for 1L/ 2L & 4L PCB. For extra thin PCB, we know they are all very thin and are easily to be broken, so the option for the surface treatment of the extra thin PCB is very crucial.

So, what kind of finishing to be recommended for the extra thin Rigid PCB?

extra thin FR4 PCB
0.15mm extra thin FR4 PCB_Best Technology

Generally, there are 3 kinds finishing can be recommended for the extra thin PCB. It is OSP, ENIG (Electroless Nickel Immersion Gold), and ENEPIG.

extra thin pcb finishing
extra thin pcb finishing

But you may want to ask that lead-free Tin is also a common finishing for the PCB. Why not recommend LF HASL? 

That’s because while LF HASL Process, the PCB will be easy to be blew away, people will use heated compressed air to leveling (blowing) on the coating molten tin (lead) solder, during this process, the traces will be easy to be broken as well.

So normally, we will not recommend the LF HASL finishing for an ultra thin FR4 PCB.

HASL lead-free is only suitable for a board with minimum thickness of 0.6mm, while the standard gold immersion surface coating can support PCB with a minimum thickness of 0.2mm. For the surface treatment of ENEPIG , which plate only needs to be about 0.1 microns for palladium and about 0.1 microns for gold, (palladium is a precious metal that is much harder than gold), so for board with ENEPIG finishing, its surface will looks more smooth, that’s also why it is the most recommended surface treatment for an extra thin PCB.

extra thin PCB
0.13mm extra thin Rigid FR4 PCB_Best Technology

If you are searching for an extra thin PCB, feel freely to ask or send your inquiry to us. We will be pleased to share you more information regarding the extra thin PCB.

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What is SinkPad PCB?

Wednesday, June 17th, 2020

SinkPad PCB, also called Heat Sink or DTP (direct thermal path) PCB, it is a type of Copper base PCB used in thermoelectric separation application. It generally used for high power LED, the pad of LED touch the copper base directly, so that the heat generated by LED will dissipate quickly, which can achieve the best heat dissipation and conduction.

SinkPad PCB
SinkPad PCB

Thermoelectric separation technology is based on the higher heat dissipation requirements of high power electronic products, which needs to meet two basic conditions:

1.LED pad touches the base substrate directly.

It means we need to increase the path of the LED pad to the base substrate to accelerate the heat emission from the base material.

Two layers SinkPad PCB Stack up
Two layers SinkPad PCB Stack up

2.Higher heat dissipation substrate materials

Copper has a thermal conductivity of 401W/m·K, while aluminum has a thermal conductivity of 237W/m·K. Obviously, copper has better thermal conductivity because of its high density, high mass. Therefore, a SinkPad PCB usually means a SinkPad copper base PCB.

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Why do High Power LED mostly use COB light sources? What are the advantages?

Tuesday, June 16th, 2020

If we observe carefully, we will find that most of the high-quality surface light lamps in the market use COB light source, such as LED spotlights, Automotive, LED Backlight for LED TV, etc. What are the advantages of such choice?

Automotive
Automotive
LED Backlight for LED TV
LED Backlight for LED TV
LED spotlights
LED spotlights

First of all, we need to how the COB differ from the common MCPCB. “Chip-On-Board” Metal Core PCB is a type of MCPCB used in thermoelectric separation application. By using COB, the micro-chip (also known as “die”) directly touch the metal core where the heat dissipate, and electrically interconnect the trace of circuit board (wire-bonding) so that power supply can be provided.

Stack up
Stack up

Advantages of utilizing COB MCPCB over common MCPCB:

  1. High thermal conductivity(137W/m.K), High insulation, High pressure resistance
  2. High reflectivity: mirror aluminum≥98% (The reflectivity of Taiyo Soldermask used in common MCPCB is 75-80%, the highest is only 90%)
aluminum pcb
BAS15191
metal core pcb
BAS15192

Since the COB is packaged directly on the MCPCB, it’s easy assembly for high powers LED, direct heat dissipation through the substrate can not only reduce the manufacturing process and cost of the bracket, but also have the advantage of reducing heat dissipation resistance. So the spotlight produced by COB technology will be lighter, more flexible and able to realize more possibilities on the stage.

If you are also interested in COB, please feel free to contact me, I’m looking forward to communicating more with you.

You’re welcome to visit our website to learn more about us. https://www.bestpcbs.com/products/COB-MCPCB.htm

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What is high Tg PCB (fr4-170TG, TG 130-140, FR4 Tg150)

Thursday, June 11th, 2020

In recent years, there are more and more customers request to manufacture PCB with high Tg, in the following we would like to describe what is high Tg PCB.

fr4 170tg
fr4 170tg

Normally high Tg refers to high heat resistance in PCB raw material, the standard Tg for copper clad laminate is between 130 – 140℃, High Tg is generally greater than 170℃, and middle Tg is generally greater than 150℃. Basically the printed circuit board with Tg≥170℃, we call high Tg PCB. As the rapid development of electric industry, especially for the computer as the representative of electronic products, developing toward the high performance, high multilayer requires PCB substrate material with higher heat resistance to ensure high reliability. On the other hand, as a result of development of SMT, CMT with high density pcb assembly technology, the PCB manufacturing with small hole size, fine lines and thin thickness are more and more inseparable from the support of high heat resistance.

fr4 170tg
fr4 170tg

If the Tg of PCB substrate is increased, the heat resistance, moisture resistance, chemical resistance and stability of printed circuit boards will be improved as well. The high Tg applicates more in the lead free pcb manufacturing process.

Therefore, the difference between general FR4 and high Tg FR4 is, in the hot state, especially in the heat absorption with moisture, the high Tg PCB substrate will perform better than general FR4 in the aspects of mechanical strength, dimensional stability, adhesiveness, water absorption and thermal decomposition.

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We will be exhibiting at electronica Munich 2020

Monday, June 8th, 2020

Best Technology, a China- based assembly manufacturer will be exhibiting at electronica Munich 2020 in Bavaria, Germany at booth No. 623(Hall B1) from November 10, 2020 to November 13, 2020(Western Time). Actually, we have participated in this exhibition for continuous 2 years. Here are some pictures for your reference.

pcb exhibition
pcb exhibition
pcb exhibition
pcb exhibition
pcb exhibition
pcb exhibition
pcb exhibition
pcb exhibition

At our exhibition booth, attendees will be able to learn more about our company for PCB manufacturing and PCB assembly technology.

For interested professionals, Best Technology had on hand experts to offer detailed insights and experience on PCB assembly, covering PCB prototype and low/high-volume production. For more information on PCB assembly and fabrication, welcome to visit our booth.

You will see 10mm to 1,500 mm flexible circuit board, from 2 layer rigid-flex circuit to 50 layers, 1/2 OZ copper to 3 OZ, 0.15mm extra thin FR4 PCB to 30 OZ heavy copper, turn-key service from components sourcing,board fabrication(FPC, PCB, MCPCB, Ceramic PCB) and final assembly with programming and testing and metal dome that is used in conjunction with a printed circuit board, flex circuit, or membrane, become normally-open tactile switches. we have four types of metal domes: four legs with size from 5mm-20mm; triangle with size 4mm-12mm; round dome with size 4-16mm, oblong dome with size 3.7mm-58.1mm, and we also make dome with adhesive, named dome array.

You are warmly welcome to see how we can manage the components wastage and efficiency to help save your time, money and energy.

About electronica Munich:

Electronica is the international trade show for electronic components, systems and applications and shows the full range in all its diversity in width and depth as the world’s leading trade fair. It reflects the high degree of innovation throughout the industry. Exhibitors and users in the areas of systems, applications and technologies of electronics can receive the information of the latest innovations and developments in the fields of system peripherals, power engineering to printed circuit boards or EMS.

Welcome to visit us at Booth 623 from November 10, 2020 to November 13, 2020(Western Time).

electronica 2020
electronica 2020

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HS Code and Import Tariff Rates of Face Mask in Some Major Countries

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2020

Regarding HS code and duty rate of face masks in some major countries, we collected some information in main trade partners (US, Japan, EU, Korea, Taiwan, Australia, New Zealand) of China. This is aimed at the face masks such as personal protective masks without special function components, including medical face masks and disposable face masks. All of below information were published by the custom officially.

US:

According to Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States, HTSUS, the HS code of face masks in the US is 6307909889. And the duty rate imported from China is 7%. Regarding tariff imposed, according to announcement from the United States Trade Representative on March 12, 2020, the tariff is excluded for the face masks belonging to this HS code since September 1, 2019. Since then, all the face masks imported from China has been exempted from tariff. You can refer to the below chart for more information.

face mask tariff
face mask tariff

Japan:

The HS code of face masks in Japan is 630790029. The duty rate imported from China is 4.7%. To learn more, see below:

face mask tariff
face mask tariff

EU:

The duty paragraph for face masks imported from China in EU is 6307909899 and the duty rate is 6.3%. You can see below for more information:

face mask tariff
face mask tariff

Korea:

The duty paragraph for face masks imported from China in Korea is 6307909000, and normally, the tariff is 10%. However, from March 18, 2020 to June 30, 2020, Korea has been suspending imposing tariff for face masks from China(0 tariff currently), see below for more information:

face mask tariff
face mask tariff

Taiwan, China:

The HS code(also referred to as duty paragraph) of face masks imported from China mainland in Taiwan is 63079050.

And, the duty rate for face masks imported from China mainland is 7.5%. However, from February 27, 2020 to May 26, 2020, provisional tax rates (also referred to as“flexible tax rate”in Taiwan area) for face masks was carried out in Taiwan area, i.e. the tariff is zero. You can see below for more information:

face mask tariff
face mask tariff

Australia:

The HS code of face masks imported from China in Australia is 63079099 and the duty rate is 5%. See below for more information:

face mask tariff
face mask tariff

New Zealand:

The HS code of face masks imported from China in New Zealand is 63079028. Zero tariff is applied to the face masks imported from China according to “New free trade agreement”. See below for more information:

face mask tariff
face mask tariff

To learn more, see below document:

face-mask-hs-code-and-tariff-in-some-countries

Hope the above information is useful to you. And if you have any queries, comments or suggestions, contact us anytime. We will be glad to help you.

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