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Phil:
The only place I've heard of PTFE, PTA and like materials still being metallized is for the space program. I seem to remember that a year or two ago in NASA Tech Briefs there was an article which alluded to gold as the metallization in the PTFE. Hope this helps...
Dr. Bill
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> Subject: [TN] Metallized teflon film
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> I understand that prior to polyimide, vacuum metallized Teflon film was used for flex PCB's.> Seems to me this would be an excellent RF board material in place of PTFE panel material (at 2 mil thickness a 50ohm trace would be 6 mil wide). Has it disappeared totally and if so, why?
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