Soldering the pads of the flex board to the pads on the PCB was a bit tricky, but easy enough to pull off reliably with a bit of practice. A bonus was that the flex PCB is transparent, so solder ...

OKI Circuit Technology’s rigid-flex PCBs feature embedded copper “coins” that improve heat dissipation for space applications ...

Flexible PCB Design Many questions come into play when designing a flexible PCB (Fig. 2), with the most important being how many times it will flex and to what extent it will flex.

Additional design re-use tools are being added for increased productivity when managing pads and vias as reusable libraries in PCB designs. Jason Hingston, CTO at Altium: “With Altium Designer 15.1, ...

Trends, opportunity and forecast in the global rigid-flex PCB market to 2028 by board type (2 layer, 4 layer, 6 layer, 8 layer, and 10 layer, and above), component (capacitors, diodes, integrated ...

The overall demand for handset PCBs is being affected negatively by the global deceleration in smartphone sales. However, rising adoption of multi-lens cameras by smartphones is set to stimulate ...

Rigid-flex PCB manufacturers have seen orders for Apple's AirPods 2 slow down since 2020, but believe orders will return to year-ago levels in the second half of the year, according ...

3D PCB Electromagnetic (EM) Bending Analysis Rigid-Flex PCBs have been used in many modern electronic devices (such as mobile phones, laptops, and wearables, among others), due to their form factor, ...