Isola Group, a worldwide leader in Laminates & Prepreg, today announced that its technical staff would offer a global 24-hour design review service for PCB fabricators of radio frequency (RF) and millimeter-wave applications. This will not only enable PCB fabricators to quickly and cost-effectively transition their current RF substrates to Isola’s RF products, but also eliminate the production backlogs caused by the current shortages of RF substrates. In compare to other laminate suppliers that have extended their lead-times to as long as 12 weeks, Isola’s materials are in stock and ready to ship, which backs up their announcement of increased production of its RF-related materials.
The design review technical staff will respond to customer requests within 24 hours of the inquiry and work to provide on a turnkey basis all of the calculations, testing, characterizations and material recommendations to assist PCB fabricators and OEMs to convert to Isola’s materials.The design staff will also address some of the commonly held misperceptions about difficulty faced in migration, which mainly includes cost of ownership related to material processing, the equivalency of materials available in the market, concerns about thermal conductivity and heat dissipation and PCB fabricator support and credentials.
Isola’s suite of modern, extremely cost-effective substrate alternatives and no capacity limitation, makes them stands out against those material suppliers having limited manufacturing capacities failing to scale-up to full production. Isola’s substantial capacity of manufacturing along with ten facilities around the world, it has also increased the production of its very-low loss materials including I-Tera MT, I-Tera MT RF, TerraGreen and Astra MT in response to increased lead times by other suppliers in the RF market.
Current Isola customers have realized a 50 percent lower cost of ownership due to the processing and pricing advantages of Isola’s materials versus Rogers’ 3000 and 4000 series and to that from Arlon and Taconic. Isola’s very-low loss materials are ideal for printed circuit designs,operating at wireless communication (700 MHz to 3500 MHz) and higher millimeter-wave frequencies(up to 110 GHz).Target applications include 24 GHz and 76 to 79 GHz frequencies in use for advanced driver assistance packages, such as adaptive cruise control, collision avoidance, blind spot detection, lane departure warning and stop-and-go systems.Additional applications include include power amplifiers, base station antennas, DAS antennas, CPE antennas, feed networks, point-to-point microwave links, millimeter wave applications, GPS satellite antennas and other advanced radar applications.
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