Mechanical drilling of printed circuit boards: The state-of-the-art

Circuit World

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 3-8

  fu, Lianyu ^a   Qu, Jianguo ^a   Chen, Haibin ^a  

^a Shenzhen Jinzhou Precision Technology Corp   (China)

Author keywords

Circuit boards; Material removal processes; Printed circuits

Indexed keywords

BITS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HALOGEN ELEMENTS; PRINTED CIRCUIT MANUFACTURE; TUNGSTEN CARBIDE;

HIGH-DENSITY INTERCONNECTION; LEAD-FREE ASSEMBLY; MECHANICAL DRILLING; MICRO-DRILL BIT;

PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS;

EID: 36248994661     PISSN: 03056120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03056120710836882     Document Type: Review

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