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[Nov 2006]
Five Star Technologies Introduces New Category of Specialty Dispersion Products at IMAPS
Five Star Technologies (San Diego, CA, USA) has announced that it has introduced a family of new dispersion products to manufacturers of electronic packages and related materials attending the 39th Annual Symposium of the International Microelectronics & Packaging Society (IMAPS). The new products include dispersions for precious metal processing, chip packaging materials, speciality inks and pastes and ceramic components.
The company expects each to find wide, immediate use in the fabrication of microelectronics for makers of cellular phones, PC boards and automotive and medical electronics. At the same time, it expects its dispersion products to become an enabling technology for next generation RFID, LCD and plasma displays, solar panel build-ups and smart sensors.
"Based on early collaboration and testing with industry-leading customers, we believe that Five Star's dispersions will eliminate frustrations currently felt by many in the industry at their inability to consistently produce key packaging features at ever smaller dimensions," says Dana Hankey, Business Director of Electronic Materials for Five Star. "Five Star's dispersions are uniquely uniform and stable for particles at both the micron and nanometer scale."
Customer tests, says Mr Hankey, have demonstrated numerous advantages for Five Star dispersions. These include:
* Dispersion uniformity that eliminates agglomerates and precisely controls maximum allowable particle sizes.
* Rheological stability in numerous applications using multiple fillers and organic solvents.
* Elimination of multiple processing steps.
* No degradation of material purity and, in certain instances, enhancement.
* Maintenance of key material features such as morphology and coating integrity.
* Ability to match coefficients of thermal expansion with those of surrounding materials.
Taken together, says Dana Hankey, these benefits mean that Five Star's patented technology for creating uniform, stable dispersions fills a missing link in the electronic materials supply chain. "We believe that our new products will noticeably impact performance of electronics assemblies and the consumer products they enable. Five Star dispersions will become an essential underlying technology for multiple applications in a wide variety of markets," he said.
Five Star Technologies is a supplier of high performance powders and dispersions for use in semiconductor and microelectronic packaging, display and ceramic component applications. Using its patented Particle Management Technology, Five Star creates precision dispersions of a wide range of materials (metals, oxides, nitrides, carbon fibres etc) in various organic media. The company says that its products exhibit unparalleled rheological stability and exceptional particle size control, enabling their customers to produce materials with next-generation performance profiles.
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