As the name suggests, a flexible printed circuit is a pattern of conductors printed onto a flexible insulating film. Rigid-flex is the name given to a printed circuit that is a combination of both ...

Flexible circuit design is fast becoming a preferred electronic circuit packaging practice that is used to create such products as mobile flip-phones or laptop computers. With marketing teams striving ...

In today’s electronics industry, compact, efficient, and versatile PCBs are in high demand. Rigid-flex technology allows engineers to design boards that bend and flex without compromising performance ...

Most every device and electronic piece of equipment is outfitted with a printed circuit board (PCB), including smartphones, TVs, appliances, and more. You know the composite. The boards are laminated ...

When it’s time for a specialty interconnect, users need to know how they can get a circuit or circuit assembly that will perform in challenging applications. Trends including miniaturization, ...

Stratos Optical Technologies now offers increased packaging density as a custom manufacturing option for its optical flex circuit products (see figure). The new optical flex circuit design is called ...

Flexible cables and flex PCBs are wonderful. You could choose to carefully make a cable bundle out of ten wires and try to squish them to have a thin footprint – or you could put an FFC connector onto ...

Building electronics in unconventional form factors with high packaging density is possible thanks to three-dimensional circuit designs using flex and rigid-flex printed circuit boards (PCBs).

The plating type is usually immaterial to the footprint geometry but is often incorporated somewhere in the vendor part ...

A team of researchers have created a new type of soft circuit electronics that can be used in cell phones and laptops. The soft circuitry is intended to replace inflexible, rigid materials that use ...