ESPOO, Finland -- Picosun Oy develops a novel, production-scale method for printed circuit board protection for various industrial customers. The development is being carried out under a contract with the European Space Agency (ESA).
Reliability of electrical components is of vital importance in aerospace industries. Consumer products suffer as well from the degrading performance of control electronics, especially failures in the printed circuit boards (PCBs) housing the components. Picosun's ALD technology offers efficient protection of the PCBs with dense, tight, uniform, and conformal encapsulating coatings preventing the most typical performance-degrading phenomena, for example tin whiskering. The now developed protection method will find its applications not only in space, aviation, and other high-end products but in everyday items such as mobile phones, computers, cars, household machinery, and entertainment electronics.
"We at Picosun are excited to extend our ALD expertise to this important new application area. There is a huge demand for improved methods for PCB protection and the global market is enormous. Our industrial-scale P-series ALD systems are ideal for fast, reliable, and cost-efficient processing of even large PCB structures in optimized batch configuration, offering unparalleled competitive edge and added value to global PCB manufacturers," states Juhana Kostamo, Managing Director of Picosun.
Picosun provides the most advanced ALD thin film technology and enables the industrial leap into the future by novel, cutting-edge coating solutions, with four decades of continuous expertise in the field. Today, PICOSUN™ ALD systems are in daily production use in numerous major industries around the world. Picosun is based in Finland, with subsidiaries in USA, China, Taiwan, and Singapore, and a world-wide sales and support network.
The Picosun-ESA contract is a part of an activity funded by the ESA programs European Component Initiative Phase 4 and Strategic Initiative. Disclaimer: The views expressed herein can in no way be taken to reflect the official opinion of the European Space Agency.
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