Mon, Sep 14, 2009
Clean Room Environment Expands University's R&D
Capability
Flint Hills Solutions recently installed a class 10,000
advanced surface mount technology clean room at the Kansas State
University Salina campus. The Advanced Avionics
Miniaturization Lab's HEPA filters and Laminar Flow Air create a
quality controlled environment, reducing rework by minimizing air
particulates. This clean room houses some of the most
sophisticated machines used in SMT today with the capability to
rapidly prototype advanced miniaturized unmanned aerial system
payloads and avionics. The miniaturization technology will
help meet the increasing demand to reduce weight to improve UAV
endurance and capabilities.
The SMT lab has announced initial operating capabilities and is
seeking/accepting projects immediately. The laboratory has
the ability to design in miniaturized components and rapidly
prototype miniaturized System in Packages, including high mix, low
volume fabrication of miniaturized sensors using technology such as
two sided boards with System in Package, Package on Package, Flip
Chip, BGA, Die Stacking, screen printing, encapsulation and chip
scale packaging.
Future plans include offering technical SMT related courses
developed by K-State. With the combined research capability
of the K-State Electronics Design Laboratory located on the main
campus of K-State Manhattan, a complete offering of miniaturization
services is now available.
Kansas State University Clean
Room
Assembly capabilities include:
- Class 10,000 (clean room)
- Epoxy and eutectic die attach
- Dam and fill, dispensed encapsulation (glob-top)
- Transfer mold encapsulation
- Stencil screen printing
- Fine pitch pick and place
- Reflow (N2 environment)
- IPC standards
- No-lead and RoHs compliant capable
The Lab is equipped with a DEK 03i Screen Printer, Asymtek S-820
Dispenser, JUKI CX-1 Pick and Place, Vitronics Soltec XPM2+520
Reflow Oven, and an AirVac DRS25 Rework Station. These
machines use passive component sizes of 0201 and smaller fixed on
some of the smallest substrates in production.
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