Du Pont provides its electronics customers with the "big screen" treatment

Citation

(2000), "Du Pont provides its electronics customers with the "big screen" treatment", Microelectronics International, Vol. 17 No. 3. https://doi.org/10.1108/mi.2000.21817cab.021

Du Pont provides its electronics customers with the "big screen" treatment

Du Pont provides its electronics customers with the "big screen" treatment

Keywords Du Pont, Testing, Screen printing

DuPont Microcircuit Materials has significantly extended the capabilities of its Bristol based clean room testing and evaluation facility through the recent installation of a new large format Baccini screen-printing system (Plate 2).

Plate 2 Du Pont Microcircuit Materials has extended the capabilities of its Bristol based clean room testing and evaluation facility through the recent installation of a new large format Baccini screen-printing system

With an maximum screen frame capacity of 20" x 20" – three times the size of equipment previously used at Bristol – the Italian manufactured system is accurate down to two microns. Additionally, a fully computerised vision alignment facility guarantees the necessary high level of precision required in the production of increasingly sophisticated electronic circuitry.

"The Baccini equipment enables us to get as close as possible to real-time production conditions experienced by our customers", says Alan Buckthorpe of the Du Pont Microcircuit Materials Technical Services Group. "The larger screen frame size is essential in matching current manufacturing requirements – whether it is in order to realise improved scale economies, or to print the bigger-size circuits increasingly in use within the automotive industry".

Equally capable of printing direct on to 6" x 4" ceramic substrates and Du Pont's high volume/low cost Green Tape 951 and 943 systems (to a size of 8" x 8"), the Baccini screen-printing equipment went online in January 2000.