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Article: Search for a new device could catalyze a circuit board revolution.(Circuits Unusual)
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- CircuiTree
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- June 1, 2006
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The printed circuit board has not fundamentally changed in its century of existence. While PCB making has improved, we still place copper patterns on dielectric substrate. The conductor patterning process has evolved from cutting strips of metal, to printing, and finally to photoimaging, but for the most part, we're still stringing copper wires. This works, so maybe there's nothing wrong with doing things the same old way. After all, the semiconductor industry has been "chiseling" away at silicon for half a century and keeping up with Moore's Law. Why should anything change? We can keep making electronics smaller, faster, cheaper for another century, right? But could the ...