Article: Advanced binders for high-tech applications: today's advanced polyvinyl butyral resins are providing a number of benefits as binders for oxide ceramic-based passives.

Since the 1930s, ceramists have attempted to develop novel ceramic plate and film forming processes and techniques that would support the growing trend toward miniaturization within the electronic components sector. The first generation of ceramic slips based on resins such as polyvinyl chloride co-polymers required high levels of solvent to generate the necessary low viscosity. Additionally, they contained low levels of ceramic oxide pigment, and the binders did not burn out very efficiently. Successive generations of ceramic slips evolved to incorporate polymers based on vinyl and acrylic chemistry that were suitable for thin-film ceramic tape processing. The major ...

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