Polymeric waveguides on rigid and flexible PCB

Author

Lo, Wei-Chung ; Shen, Li-Cheng ; Chang, Hsiang-Hung ; Fu, Hum-Chun ; Chen, Yu-Cbih ; Chang, Shu-Ming ; Lee, Yuan-Chang ; Wun-Yan Chen ; Chou, Ming-Chieh

Author_Institution

Adv. Process Technol. Dept., APC/ERSO/ITRI, Hsinchu, Taiwan

Volume

2

fYear

2004

fDate

1-4 June 2004

Firstpage

1947

Abstract

Numerous advanced board level interconnects were introduced, to meet different. applications, by using multilayer copper traces or optical waveguides as the interconnect media between components. With economic criteria and efficiency concerns increasing, polymeric waveguides are playing a more and more important role in this area. The properties and characterization of polymeric waveguides are the key issues in losses incurred during reliability tests of board level interconnections. The present work mainly focuses on the investigation of the quality of optical interconnect layers to meet the reliability requirements for FR4 rigid circuit boards and flexible printed circuits.

Keywords

circuit reliability; optical interconnections; optical planar waveguides; optical polymers; printed circuits; FR4 rigid circuit board; board level interconnects; flexible PCB; optical interconnection layer quality; optical waveguides; polymeric waveguides; reliability; rigid PCB; Copper; Flexible printed circuits; Integrated circuit interconnections; Nonhomogeneous media; Optical devices; Optical interconnections; Optical losses; Optical polymers; Optical waveguide components; Optical waveguides;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electronic Components and Technology Conference, 2004. Proceedings. 54th

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8365-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ECTC.2004.1320393

Filename

1320393