3D-MID: Three-Dimensional Molded Interconnect Devices

Materials, Manufacturing, Assembly and Applications for Injection Molded Circuit Carriers
Copyright: 2014
ISBN: 978-1-56990-551-7
Hardcover: 356 full-color pages
$169.99 (US)

Contents:

Description:

Three-dimensional molded interconnect devices (MID) enable mechanical, electronic, optical, thermal and fluidic functions to be integrated into injection-molded components. Function integration on this scale goes hand in hand with a high level of geometrical design freedom and opportunities for miniaturization, plus the associated reduction in weight and savings on product costs. MID are made primarily of recyclable thermoplastics, so they are more environmentally compatible than alternatives produced using other available technologies.

MID are used in virtually every sector of electronics. The many standard applications for MID in the automotive industry in particular also drive for further development and research into MID technology. The significance of MID technology is also increasing in medical engineering, IT and telecommunications, and industrial automation with numerous applications now successfully implemented in all these various fields.

This book offers a comprehensive insight into the state of the art in 3D-MID technology along the entire process chain. Individual chapters, moreover, deal with systematics of targeted development of MID parts and explore, with a dozen and more successful series-production applications as examples, the widely diverse fields of application for MID technology.

Author Info:

Franke, J.
Prof. Jörg Franke is the volume editor of 3D-MID.  
 
He is Professor at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, and has held the Chair of the Institute for Factory Automation and Production Systems since March 2009. He is Chair of the Board of the Research Association Molded Interconnect Devices (3-D MID) e.V. and Director of the Bavarian Technology Center for Electrical Drives (E|Drive-Center). During his 14 years in industry, Prof. Franke worked for, among others, McKinsey & Company Inc., Robert Bosch GmbH, ZF Lenksysteme (ZFLS) GmbH, INA Schaeffler KG, and finally as Chair of the Board of ABM Greiffenberger Antriebstechnik GmbH.