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Substrate (printing)


Substrate is used in a converting process such as printing or coating to generally describe the base material onto which, e.g. images, will be printed. Base materials may include:

  • plastic films or foils,
  • release liner
  • textiles,
  • plastic containers
  • any variety of paper (lightweight, heavyweight, coated, uncoated, paperboard, cardboard, etc.), or
  • parchment.

Electronics

Main article: Planar transmission line#Substrates

Printing processes such as silk-screening and photolithography are used in electronics to produce printed circuit boards and integrated circuits. Some common substrates used are;

  • Glass-reinforced epoxy, eg FR-4 board
  • Ceramic-PTFE laminate, eg 6010 board
  • Alumina ceramic
  • Silicon
  • Gallium arsenide
  • Sapphire
  • Quartz

References

Bibliography

  • Rogers, John WM; Plett, Calvin, Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit Design, Artech House, 2010 .

References

  1. Rogers & Plett, p. 162
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