Heraeus Electronics, a leading provider of materials solutions for the semiconductor and electronic packaging industries, today announced its new SD1020 dielectric thick film paste, which represents a breakthrough in insulative technology for circuits and heaters on stainless steel used in automotive, industrial and consumer-product applications. The paste combines design flexibility with well-known advantages for thick film heater technology, including high reliability, fast cycle times, high power densities and precise heating. One of the biggest challenges with existing paste technology has been the inability to solve substrate issues, which results in poor performance of the printed circuit on that bowed substrate. The bowing leads not only to flatness and printing problems, but also causes stresses within the fired film system that are manifested in field failures undetectable to outgoing quality checks. Read more