The company has established partnerships with a wide network of PCB and thin-film manufacturers to offer a broad range of options in terms of circuitisation, quality, volume and standards.
The company’s range of capabilities are extensive including: fast turnaround prototyping, high-definition thin-film circuitisation, speciality manufacturing as well as high-volume mass production and key industry and regulatory standards, such as automotive standard ISO/TS 16949:2009, as well as industry-specific SGS standards, can be applied.
From LED chip packaging to high-brightness modules, thermal management is becoming a limiting factor as customers demand brighter LED devices in ever smaller footprints. To meet these requirements LED manufactures are being pushed into using more thermally effective substrates to ensure that LEDs stay cool enough to meet their advertised lifespan, which usually meant switching from cost effective MCPCBs to expensive and difficult-to-work-with ceramics such as alumina and aluminium nitride.
Nanotherm’s patented ECO process involves converting the surface of the aluminium core of the MCPCB, which acts as a heat spreader, into an electrically insulating but thermally conductive nanoceramic that offers outstanding thermal performance. Depending on the circuitisation route that is chosen, composite thermal performance of the resulting Nanotherm MCPCB ranges from 115 W/mK to 152 W/mK.
Sitting at the heart of high-power LED applications, the company’s technologies are able to support a new generation of products that rely on effective thermal management to operate. Cambridge Nanotherm’s proprietary LC and DM technologies are available exclusively via this manufacturing process.
Commenting Andy Matthews, COO at Cambridge Nanotherm, said: “Our MCPCBs offer designers a distinct thermal advantage and demand has been strong. We’re currently engaged with most of the top ten LED manufacturers and, as a result, we’ve expanded our manufacturing routes to cater to a much broader variety of requirements. We will continue to develop our manufacturing capabilities.”