Novel Uses of Flexible Circuit Technology in High Performance Electronic Applications

Flexible circuits are ideally suited to solving the design demands of next generation electronics. The flexible circuit offers a number of advantages that are unavailable to those using more traditional, rigid type interconnection structures. A number of new applications for flexible circuits have been developed that may well provide a glimpse of what is yet to come in electronic packaging technology. These new applications embrace the whole spectrum of the electronics interconnection world from chip packaging to high density multilayer structures. Reviewed here are some of the more novel uses of the flex circuit for high performance electronic interconnection.