Application Note: Everything You Wanted To Know About Laminates

Although this book is entitled “Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Laminates, But Were Afraid to Ask,” the real subject matter is Printed Circuit Boards, the materials that are used to manufacture them, and how you as a designer or manufacturer of MLB’s can benefit by a better understanding of what we, as laminators, do and supply. Multilayer printed circuit boards are complex composite structures comprising a series of layers of reinforced resin and copper foil all put together in a multi-level operation that involves an electrical and electronic design team, and at the PWB shop level, the integration of a variety of physical and chemical processes. The starting point for the manufacture of those PWBs is the copper-clad laminates and prepregs that you purchase from Arlon.