Ironwood Electronics’ new high performance BGA socket product line uses elastomer capable of high speed, low inductance, high endurance and wide temperature applications. The SM-BGA-9006 socket is designed for 16X16 mm package size and operates at bandwidths up to 40 GHz with less than 1dB of insertion loss. The socket is also designed to dissipate few watts with compression … [Read more...]
Compliant Elastomer Gap Filler with High Tolerance Stack-Up
Laird Technologies, Inc. recently released its new Tflex™ XS400 Series thermal gap filler, offering a compliant elastomer gap filler specifically designed to provide moderate thermal performance with a thermal conductivity of 2.0 W/mK. This soft interface pad conforms with minimal pressure, resulting in minimal thermal resistance even at low pressure with little or no stress on … [Read more...]
The thermal conductivity of rubbers/elastomers
In the May 2001 issue, this column discussed the thermal conductivity of unfilled plastics. The interested reader may have noticed that the category of rubbers/elastomers was missing. This was not without reason. The user of these elastic materials should be aware that the final thermal resistance (which is, of course, from an engineering point of view, the more important … [Read more...]
