July 1, 2011 — Creative Materials Inc. now manufactures electrically conductive and electrically insulating adhesives for quartz oscillator circuits, used for bonding leads and lids. The low-stress adhesives feature good thermal stability with low out-gassing. Creative Materials designed the adhesives to avoid interference with the oscillation action inside the package.
Creative Materials’ electrically conductive adhesives will be used to bond leads onto the crystal. They are said to offer small particle size, low shrinkage, high bond strength, and low resin bleed. These include 120-02 (flexible, medium viscosity, screen-printable), 110-16 (flexible, low viscosity, syringe dispensable), and 124-08A/B/C (high bond strength, good thermal cycling; 1 or 2-component).
The thermally conductive adhesives suit lid attach on the oscillator package. These products include 122-07 (B-stageable), 124-07 (better thermal cycling, B-stageable), 108-50 (low shrinkage, good thermal cycling), and 109-12 (best thermally conductivity, low shrinkage, good thermal cycling).
Crystal oscillators are used in communications and timing systems in cell phones, quartz watches, computers, and radio and sonar devices.
Creative Materials, Inc. makes electrically conductive inks, coatings, and adhesives. Learn more at www.creativematerials.com
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