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  • Open Access
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Deposition of Diamond Coatings on Ultrathin Microdrills for PCB Board Drilling

  • Shuangqing Zhou,
  • Stephan Handschuh-Wang and
  • Tao Wang

15 November 2024

The drilling of State-of-the-Art printed circuit boards (PCBs) often leads to shortened tool lifetime and low drilling accuracy due to improved strength of the PCB composites with nanofillers and higher thickness-to-hole diameter ratio. Diamond coati...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Multifunctional Coatings for New Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
1,387 Views
11 Pages

Effect of AlTiN Coating Structure on the Cutting Performance of Cemented Carbide PCB Microdrills

  • Xiaofan Yang,
  • Haiyang Lin,
  • Yicong Chen,
  • Yajue He and
  • Zhihuang Shen

26 April 2025

The preparation of high-performance hard coatings on the surface of cemented carbide PCB (printed circuit board) microdrills can effectively decrease the rapid tool wear that occurs during cutting. In this study, arc ion plating technology was employ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
126 Views
31 Pages

Precise microvia formation is a critical requirement in printed circuit board manufacturing. This study develops predictive mathematical models for the penetration depth of a Coherent AVIA LX Q-switched diode-pumped nanosecond laser in the copper foi...