Electrically Conductive Adhesives

With all the environmental concerns and constraints today and stricter future regulations, there is a patent need to replace materials noxious to the environment by environmentally-friendly alternatives. ECAs offer an excellent alternative to lead-solder interconnects for microelectronic packaging applications. Electrically conductive adhesives (ECAs) are one such example.

Environmentally-friendly ECAs offer many advantages vis-A-vis solder, such as simple and low-temperature processing conditions, better thermo mechanical performance and finer pitch. ECAs are used in electronics for laptop computers, camcorders, watch electronics, hard-drive suspensions and a myriad of electronic equipments. This book is based on the two Special Issues of the Journal of Adhesion Science and Technology (JAST vol. 22, no.

8-9 and vol. 22, no. 14) dedicated to this topic. The book contains a total of 21