Services
Flex Circuit, Rigid Flex, and Laser Micromachining Services
Flexible Circuits, Rigid-Flex and Laser Micromachining/Laser Drilling…
Lighter, Smaller, Faster to Market
We’re best known for our highly creative and imaginative team of flex circuit engineers who can design and produce your multi-layer, high-density (1 mil trace and space) prototype in 20 days or less. We’re also adept production partners, and with our Lean Manufacturing for Flex Circuits and ISO 9001 certification, you will get the maximum return on your investment without wasting time or money.
Our three core technologies can be used individually or in any combination to address your specific interconnect requirements, regardless of the complexity. These three core technologies are:
- High Density Flex Circuit & Rigid Flex Circuit Fabrication
- Laser Micromachining & Laser Drilling
- Deposition of Thin Films (Sputtered Thin Films) & Plasma
MicroConnex was founded by medical ultrasound technologists, and although medical has been our bread and butter, our services and capabilities are by no means limited to medical. Just read about our Creative Applications of Flex Circuits, Laser Micromachining & Laser Drilling and Sputtered Thin Films & Plasma to get some ideas for your applications.
Lean Thinking, Team Spirit
You won’t just work with a MicroConnex engineer. You’ll work with a tight-knit group of cross-trained engineers familiar with every aspect of the design and production of flex circuits and rigid flex.
The core idea is to maximize the value you receive while minimizing waste. In terms of process, “waste” is defined as wasted resources, time and energy.
We rely heavily on both internal and external communication and collaboration to dramatically reduce the time and effort it takes to design and build a reliable and cost-effective flex circuit. We’re not just the best flex circuit design team in the industry. We’re also your production partners.
Our focus is on constantly streamlining the process and pushing the edges of what’s possible with available materials, while simultaneously ensuring that production times and costs are minimized and ROI is maximized.
Our Services
- Flex Circuit Design and Manufacturing Process: While you may find other vendors who claim they can achieve the same tight tolerance and fine line flex circuit designs, it’s important to understand HOW they get you from here to there. Learn why we can get you there faster and more effectively… Read more about our flex circuit design and production philosophy and methodology.
- Flexible Circuits and Rigid Flex Circuits: We are best known for our rapid prototyping of custom 1 mil trace and space, multilayer flex circuits. Read more about our flex circuit and rigid flex circuits – from design to medium volume production.
- Laser Micromachining and Laser Drilling: Few flex circuit designers have high end lasers for drilling and micromachining. Even fewer (if any) have pushed the technology to the levels we have. Read more to learn how we achieve laser drilling to sub +/- 5μm tolerance and down to 10μm spot drilling with our Laser Micromachining and Laser Drilling.
- Laser Direct Write Fabrication: Close collaboration with our laser partner, Electro Scientific Industries (ESI), allows us to combine custom laser control software with advanced beam shaping optics for rapid fabrication of fine scale flex circuits and MEMS devices down to a 10μm feature size. Read more about our Laser Direct Write Circuit Fabrication services.
- Thin Film & Plasma: Deposition of thin films and plasma have many uses, including optical films, diffusion barriers, embedded passive components such as resistors, thermistors and thermocouples, strain gauges, IR detectors, implantable electrodes, and seed/bonding surfaces for multilayer structures. Read more about Sputtered Thin Films & Plasma.