Charlie, one of our guys came from Ceramtech yesterday. He was impressed by their technology, had 12 lasers going! They ought to know most of what you need. One trick for keeping the peaces together might be what we tried once, namely put a blue tape on the substrate. That way you also protect the substrate from microscopic bombardment of laser debris near scoring tracks.//Ingemar ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > We are faced with creating a "hybrid" made with an ASIC on one side and a > custon Ceramic device (abt 0.50" square) on the opposite side. The ASIC > will be mounted up-side down to the ceramic "interboard." The "hybrid" will > then be attached to an FR-4 board in the conventional manner. > > We will be building these in panel form. The ceramic between the two parts > after de-paneling will be .040" thick, and about .6" by .6" square. There > will be .25" spacing between rows of parts. Each panel will be about 4" > square. > > I am lookig for suggestions in a couple of areas: > 1. What is the best way of "scoring" the ceramic so things don't get broken > and people don't get hurt when snapping the panels apart. > 2. What would be the suggested elevation of temperatures in a seven-zone > oven to compensate for the ceramic as compared to an FR-4 board? > > TIA for any input. > > Charlie B. > > ################################################################ > TechNet E-Mail Forum provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8c > ################################################################ > To subscribe/unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text > in the body: > To subscribe: SUBSCRIBE TechNet > To unsubscribe: SIGNOFF TechNet > ################################################################ > Please visit IPC's web site (http://www.ipc.org) "On-Line Services" section for > additional information. > For technical support contact Hugo Scaramuzza at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 > ext.312 > ################################################################ > ################################################################ TechNet E-Mail Forum provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8c ################################################################ To subscribe/unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the body: To subscribe: SUBSCRIBE TechNet To unsubscribe: SIGNOFF TechNet ################################################################ Please visit IPC's web site (http://www.ipc.org) "On-Line Services" section for additional information. For technical support contact Hugo Scaramuzza at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.312 ################################################################