Isola responds to the shortages of RF substrates

As part of Isola’s design review, the company’s technical staff will respond to customer requests within 24 hours of the inquiry and work to provide, on a turnkey basis, all of the calculations, testing, characterisations and material recommendations to assist PCB manufacturers and OEMs to convert to it's materials.

Isola claim that this service will also address some of the commonly held misperceptions about the difficulties of migrating from a currently used material to an Isola material, including the cost of ownership related to material processing, the equivalency of materials available in the market, concerns about thermal conductivity and heat dissipation and PCB fabricator support and credentials. According to the company, customers have realised a 50% lower cost of ownership due to the processing and pricing advantages of it's materials versus Rogers’ 3000 and 4000 series and similar competitive products from Arlon and Taconic.

Target applications for Isola’s RF/microwave materials include 24 and 76-79GHz frequencies in use for advanced driver assistance packages, such as adaptive cruise control, collision avoidance, blind spot detection, lane departure warning and stop-and-go systems. Additional applications for the company's materials include power amplifiers, base station antennas, DAS antennas, CPE antennas, feed networks, point-to-point microwave links, millimeter wave applications, GPS satellite antennas and other advanced radar applications.