Challenges of the Future: Alternative Methods and Materials for Printed Circuit Boards

Today's and, to a greater extent, tomorrow's technologies in the Printed Circuit Industry need — besides very stringent challenges on quality — a very careful, precise and cost effective selection of valuable materials and sophisticated techniques in order to achieve optimal relationships between the costs and benefits of each technology. A survey of materials, their costs, technical requirements and also of alternative methods is given — today's and tomorrow's state‐of‐the‐art.