Antistatic masking tapes for solder flux reflow processing of printed circuit boards

This work shows that it is possible to develop acrylate adhesive masking tapes for the most demanding current forms of electronic device soldering. Performance testing confirms that these tapes are suitably stable at high temperature. They also retain their unique capability for subduing electrostatic charge generation. In this property these tapes exceeded the performance of all similar tapes, to which they were compared, including silicone-based tapes.