Investigation of environmental reliability of optical polymer waveguides embedded on printed circuit boards

Microelectronics Reliability

Volumn 47, Issue 2-3, 2007, Pages 363-371

  Immonen, Marika P ^a   Karppinen, Mikko ^b   Kivilahti, Jorma K ^c  

^a Aspocomp Group Oyj   (Finland)

^b VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^c AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; POLYMERS; PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS; RELIABILITY;

COMMERCIAL POLYMERS; ENVIRONMENTAL RELIABILITY; ISOTHERMAL ANNEALING; OPTICAL POLYMER WAVEGUIDES;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 33846575238     PISSN: 00262714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.microrel.2006.02.020     Document Type: Article

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