Posts Tagged ‘ceramic PCB’

Ceramic Multilayer PCBs: Advantages and Disadvantages

Monday, January 6th, 2020

The primary advantage of ceramic multilayer PCBs lies in their thermal properties. The most significant of these is thermal conductivity, which outperforms traditional materials by a tremendous margin. In the table below, the most used board material, FR4, is compared with the ceramic multilayer board in a number of important categories.

ceramic pcb
ceramic pcb

MULTILAYER PCB MATERIAL COMPARISON

CeramicVersusFR4
28 – 280Thermal Conductivity (Wm-K)0.8 – 1.1
Component ComparableCoefficient of Thermal Expansion (CTE)Component Comparable
HighFrequency PerformanceLow – Mid
FragileHandlingEasy
LowAvailabilityHigh
Mid – HighCostLow – Mid

As shown above, ceramic multilayer PCBs have advantages and disadvantages as compared to FR4. However, the advantages point to a continued increase in the use of ceramic boards for high-speed and high-power applications that are criteria for more functionality in smaller packages.

ceramic pcb
ceramic pcb

Best Technology, the industry leader in fast, precision and high-quality PCB manufacturing, has a wide range of material options including to meet your design objectives. This includes accommodating the special process of using ceramic materials for your board if desired. We also strive to provide you with the best manufacturing experience.

Best Technology’s Custom PCB Manufacturing Service

1.ISO-9001commitment to quality certifications.

2.Accurate quote in less than 1 day.

3.Performs entire turnkey process in as fast as 3 days.

4.Sources components from the most reputable suppliers in the industry to reduce procurement time.

5.Performs multiple automated inspections during assembly to ensure PCB quality for prototyping.

6.Provides support throughout the PCB manufacturing process, beginning with design.

7.Smooth transition from prototyping to production.

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Fantastic Banquet in Best Technology

Saturday, January 19th, 2019

All works and no play makes Jack a doll. All the guys of Best Technology have worked hard in 2018. In order to reward the members who worked really hard, we had a fantastic banquet on January 18, 2019.

At 7 PM, all the staffs attended the party and the party kicked off with the cheering and applaud. To begin with, our general manager Peter gave a speech which showed the conclusion of 2018 and his ambition for 2019.

Peter gave a speech

Peter gave a speech

After the speech finished, we began to reward the staff one by one. Compared with the ceramic PCB, FR4 PCB and metal dome, the flex circuits got the first place. Mrs Celine won the sales champion of flexible PCB.

Celin won the champion of sales

Celin won the champion of sales

Compared with last year, we have more entertainment programs in the banquet of 2018. Dancing, singing and games, all of these programs made us feel relax and forgot the pressure of work.

Dacing

Dacing

What a fantastic banquet we had. Time flies, the beautiful night quickly came to an end and we took a family picture to remember this party.

Family picture

Family picture

2018 has gone, and we will hold hands and work together to achieve the gold of 2019. since throwing his hat into printed circuit board, Best Technology is always dedicated to uphold our mission:to provide the most suitable products and the most satisfying service for our customers. If any interested in rigid PCB, rigid-flex PCB or ceramic PCB, please feel free to contact us at sales@bestpcbs.com or call us at 0755-29091601.

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The Application of Ceramic PCB in Communication Industry

Wednesday, January 16th, 2019

Time goes by, the communication of human being still reforms constantly. We are surrounded by various of communication tools, including broadcasting, mobile phone, GPS etc.. And they have become an indispensable part in our daily life. The reason why they are able to serve for us is not only depend on the development of science, but also benefit from a kind of media–antenna. Antenna is the key to the communication. If there is a problem, the connection of signals will be lost.

The antenna can be used in various environments, so it is difficult to meet the requirements of itself. In order to ensure that the antenna can work normally, it is necessary to ensure its quality, whether in the selection of material or in the production process.

Ceramic PCB

Ceramic PCB

The common printed circuit board can not meet the performances of the antenna. Nowadays, the most suitable product is the ceramic PCB. The ceramic PCB possesses various benefits as following:

  1. The dielectric constant is small.
  2. Low loss in high frequency.
  3. Having good performance in signal transmission.
  4. High boding strength between metal layer and the substrate of the ceramic PCB.
  5. With good performance in insulation. It will appear high voltage during the antenna is working, but it is incredible dangerous for human being. The ceramic PCBhas nice performance in insulation and the resistance in breakdown voltage is up to 20KV/mm which is able to protect human safety effectively.
  6. It can be used in high density assembly. The line space resolution of the ceramic PCBis able to reach 20μm, so that the lightness and thinness of the communication equipments can be realize.

Ceramic PCB

Thick film ceramic PCB

As a professional printed circuit board in China, Best Technology is always dedicated to catch up with the development of times to fabricate ceramic printed circuit boards with high quality. Withe the development of communication, we would love to provide products that offer a competitive supply of thick film  ceramic PCB and thin film ceramic PCB and other ceramic PCB products. To find out more information, contact Best Technology at 0755-29091601 or check the website: https://www.bestpcbs.com

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Xiaomi Integrated IKEA’s Smart Lighting Products in IoT Platform

Friday, December 7th, 2018

Xiaomi co-founder and CEO Lei Jun said,“To connect everything needs collaboration with others.”On November, 2018, Xiaomi announced a strategic partnership with IKEA. IKEA’s full range of smart lighting products will be connected to Xiaomi’s IoT platform starting this December in China. This marks the first time IKEA has partnered with a Chinese technology company.

Through the cooperation, the lighting products of IKEA can be controlled by smart speakers including Xiaomi’s AI voice assistant Xiao Ai, which is currently only available for Chinese Mandarin speakers.

Most of Xiaomi’s fans might know that its ‘Mi Home’ app designed to manage Xiaomi devices and products as well as Xiao Ai will be compatible in IKEA’s smart lighting products.

Speaking at the Xiaomi AIOT Developers Conference, Lei Jun said the combination of artificial intelligence (AI) and IoT will be the core strategy of his company’s business in ten years.

Fan Dian, General Manager of the IoT platform department of Xiaomi, said, “IKEA and Xiaomi share very similar values and I believe our collaboration will accelerate the development of the smart home industry across the world.”

According to the company’s third-quarter financial report, Xiaomi has connected 132 million IoT devices in the ended September.

With a goal to allow people to fully embrace AI in daily life at home, more and more PCBs are applied into connected home. Because the benefits of high thermal conductivity and heat dissipation highly meet the requirements of the market, the aluminum core PCB and ceramic PCB are the perfect match for LED lights. If you would like to add more colors for your smart home, the aluminum core PCB and ceramic PCB from Best Technology are nice choice.

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What the Maximum Current the Thick Film Ceramic PCB can be Carried?

Tuesday, January 27th, 2015

A lot of customers ask us what the biggest current his circuit can be carried, or how can I got a 6 Amps trace? We believe most of engineer design the thick film ceramic PCB, he will consider that, so we share information bellowing and hope it’ll be helpful for you.

When you try to know current, you also need to know the watts of trace will be, and then need to know the power density of thick film ceramic PCB firstly. The power density for conductor itself should be limited to max 600 Watt/inch2 of conductor surface. And power density for an Al2O3 substrate should be limited to 8 Watts/in2 (for the total of all conductors on top of it).

If you have a Ag conductor line of 0.3inch long, 0.010 inch wide (=30 square (0.3/0.01)), the surface area is 0.3 x 0.01 = 0.003 in2. This means the carrying powder P is limited to 600 (power density) x 0.003 (area) = 1.8 watts.

Assume conductor resistivity is 6mOhm/sq/12.5um (material P/N: ESL9562), the resistance value R = 30 sq x 6mOhm = 0.18 ohm.

Power = I2 x R, or I2 =Power/R=1.8/0.18 = 10, so the carrying current limit I = 3.16 amps. Or in a short equation,

I (amps) = line width (inch) x (power density)1/2 / (sheet resistance, ohm) 1/2

  1. If the trace keep 0.3 inch long, but change width to 0.02inch, (=15 square (0.3/0.02), the surface area is 0.3 x 0.02 = 0.006 in2. This means the carrying powder P is limited to 600 (power density) x 0.006 (area) = 6 watts.
    And resistance value for that trace will be 15 square x 6mOhm = 0.09 ohm, and then 3.6/0.09= 40, I=6.325 amps.
  2. If the trace width keep 0.01inch, but change line to 0.6 inch long (=60 square (0.6/0.01), the surface area is 0.6 x 0.01 = 0.006 in2. This means the carrying powder P is the same as 6 watts. (600×0.006).
    But the resistance value for that trace will change to be 60 square x 6mOhm = 0.36 ohm, and then 3.6/0.36= 10, I=3.16 amps. So you can see, it’s no useful to change the trace line.

So if you want to have bigger current for thick film ceramic PCB, then you need to increase the width of trace.

Hope above is clear for everybody. Please leave your comments on that power density of thick film ceramic PCB.

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Bigger size of Ceramic PCB is Available Now!

Wednesday, December 10th, 2014

Good news! This month we have used a new machine which can print much bigger size of silver palladium, Gold palladium, and glass glaze on Thick Film Ceramic PCB.

Currently the normal dimension in thick film Ceramic PCB is about 80 x 138mm and that size has already limited a lot of designs. You can’t put too much trace, PAD on such smaller size board, and the you have to use 2 layer, or 4 layers ceramic board to put more trace. And of course, that will increase a lot of cost definitely!

Now, we can make 200 x 200mm (8×8 inch). Thinking about the normal 80x138mm and you will find out this is an extreme improving! See bellowing pictures show the comparing!

Ceramic PCB size comparing

Ceramic PCB size comparing

So now you don’t need to worry about the size! You can design as big as you want!

And we are also continuing to adopt first-of-art machine and technology to make bigger size, higher quality Ceramic PCB!

Please contact us if you have more good idea, or suggestion about Ceramic PCB.

 

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