http://www.marchplasma.com/ March Plasma Systems, the leading manufacturer of gas plasma surface treatment technologies. en Copyright 2008 Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:10:13 GMT Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:10:13 GMT RSS DreamFeeder v 2.2.0 37.986321-122.039889 March Plasma Systems announced today that it has shipped a record number of FlexTRAK™ plasma systems to major medical and ocular products manufacturers since it began serving this market earlier this decade. ]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MarchPlasmaSystems/~3/JM8OQg7q3mw/press_061909.htm manual:1245170261227:7450260762810588:http://www.marchplasma.com/rss/marchnews.xml http://www.marchplasma.com/news/09/press_061909.htm March Plasma Systems announced today that it has qualified its advanced PROVIA™ plasma system at a leading European PCB manufacturer. The PROVIA™ plasma system will be used primarily for PCB through-hole and blind via desmear and etch-back applications. ]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MarchPlasmaSystems/~3/GLdQEqiEJYk/press_051409.htm manual:1242838511379:0:http://www.marchplasma.com/rss/marchnews.xml http://www.marchplasma.com/news/09/press_051409.htm March Plasma Systems announced today it has released its patent-pending FlexCLIP™ printed circuit board (PCB) holder technology, developed specifically for holding thin and flexible PCB panels in place during plasma processing. FlexCLIP™ holders are designed for use with a March-brand PCB plasma system to increase throughput and productivity by reducing panel loading and unloading times. PCB plasma applications include various surface treatments, via etchback and desmear steps. ]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MarchPlasmaSystems/~3/DM4GndjC1TA/press_022309.htm manual:1235689715850:37794617915510456:http://www.marchplasma.com/rss/marchnews.xml http://www.marchplasma.com/news/09/press_022309.htm March Plasma Systems announced today it has shipped a FlexTRAK-2MB Plasma System to a customer’s manufacturing facility for the purpose of plasma treating flip chip ICs before the underfill dispensing step. ]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MarchPlasmaSystems/~3/XpM7J36w8dc/press_022009.htm manual:1235689715850:5035669935490726:http://www.marchplasma.com/rss/marchnews.xml http://www.marchplasma.com/news/09/press_022009.htm March Plasma Systems announced today that R&D Circuits, a leading manufacturer of advanced printed wiring boards (PWBs), has invested in a new PCB-800 plasma system for its South Plainfield, NJ, production facility, in order to improve its on-site PWB manufacturing capabilities. ]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MarchPlasmaSystems/~3/e6L8J6LmTVM/press_112108.htm manual:1229022760937:480393937069136:http://www.marchplasma.com/rss/marchnews.xml http://www.marchplasma.com/news/08/press_112108.htm Commercially-available plasma cleaning systems using Argon gas can be used for effectively cleaning Fluorine, organic, and metal oxide contamination from the surface of a variety of microelectronic wire bonding pads in order to measurably improve the performance and reliability of wire bonding. ]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MarchPlasmaSystems/~3/5ElNbqBAkTo/press_072408.htm http://www.marchplasma.com/news/08/press_072408.htm http://www.marchplasma.com/news/08/press_072408.htm Over the past 30 years, plasma, the fourth state of matter, has become a very useful method for surface modification and deposition of variousmaterials. In IC packaging applications, plasma is employed to prepare surfaces for die attach, wirebonding and mold/encapsulation. ]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MarchPlasmaSystems/~3/k1NTFUq_bjs/ChipScale1-02_Plasma_Tech%20Forum.pdf http://www.marchplasma.com/pdf/ChipScale1-02_Plasma_Tech%20Forum.pdf http://www.marchplasma.com/pdf/ChipScale1-02_Plasma_Tech%20Forum.pdf The universal architecture of the FlexTRAK-SH system accommodates a wide range of strip sizes in the same system, yielding unmatched production flexibility. Its small chamber volume and proprietary process control system provide short cycle times, with high machine autonomy. ]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MarchPlasmaSystems/~3/nYsTgpTpGwY/ap_flextrak_sh.htm http://www.marchplasma.com/ap/ap_flextrak_sh.htm http://www.marchplasma.com/ap/ap_flextrak_sh.htm Plasma cleaning is a universally applied environmentally benign process used in numerous manufacturing processes for removal of sub-micron contamination. Dry processing is advantageous in a wide variety of manufacturing operations for removal of many types of contamination including organic residues, polymer coatings or build-ups, waxes, metals and metal oxides, fluorine and other halogens. ]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MarchPlasmaSystems/~3/EhcnGVziIsU/sm_clean.htm http://www.marchplasma.com/sm/sm_clean.htm http://www.marchplasma.com/sm/sm_clean.htm March Plasma Systems, the global leader in advanced plasma treatment systems, announced today that one of the UK’s leading manufacturers of standard and custom microwave component technology has invested in a new PBC-1600 plasma system at its Presteigne microwave printed circuit board (PCB) production facility, with the aim of improving processes, efficiency and manufacturing capability. ]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MarchPlasmaSystems/~3/ZCL6MfmgZPo/press_052108.htm http://www.marchplasma.com/news/08/press_052108.htm http://www.marchplasma.com/news/08/press_052108.htm “The PM-100 plasma system opens up a new world of economical plasma processing for small-budget operations,” said Frank Huysmans, vice president of sales at March Plasma Systems. “These facilities typically know and understand the value of plasma treatments, but have been locked-out from acquiring equipment due to high system costs. ]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MarchPlasmaSystems/~3/cwCscpVypnE/press_052008.htm http://www.marchplasma.com/news/08/press_052008.htm http://www.marchplasma.com/news/08/press_052008.htm The process of plasma induced crosslinking involves a physical or chemical reaction that breaks chemical bonds on the surface of the material. The resulting radicals in the polymer chain react with adjoining chains linking one polymer chain to another which improves the surface’s barrier and biocompatibility characteristics. ]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MarchPlasmaSystems/~3/SEGdn4-KTso/sm_crosslink.htm http://www.marchplasma.com/sm/sm_crosslink.htm http://www.marchplasma.com/sm/sm_crosslink.htm The FlexTRAK-WR system was specifically designed for advanced wafer processing and wafer level packaging (WLP) applications, including plasma etching, ashing and descum of semiconductor wafers and other advanced substrates. ]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MarchPlasmaSystems/~3/oEWBZhkRKUo/press_043008.htm http://www.marchplasma.com/news/08/press_043008.htm http://www.marchplasma.com/news/08/press_043008.htm The FP64 system enables advanced flexible PCB manufacturing. As the market expands from traditional rigid PCBs to flexible panels, it opens up new segments of PCB fabrication, with higher production efficiencies and lower costs than ever before. ]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MarchPlasmaSystems/~3/DyT43_cGiOs/press_032708.htm http://www.marchplasma.com/news/08/press_032708.htm http://www.marchplasma.com/news/08/press_032708.htm Target applications for the PROVIA plasma system include desmear and etch-back steps for PCB through holes and blind vias, surface activation of difficult-to-wet and difficult-to-bond layers/films, removal of carbon and hydrocarbon residues from PCB surfaces, PCB inner-layer preparation/treatment for improved bonding and adhesion, and general contamination removal. ]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MarchPlasmaSystems/~3/5hNlha9pTo8/press_032508.htm http://www.marchplasma.com/news/08/press_032508.htm http://www.marchplasma.com/news/08/press_032508.htm