High frequency circuit materials to meet the needs of today's complex military and high reliability designs.(Product Feature)(Product/Service Evaluation)

The introduction of RT/duroid[R] 6002 high frequency circuit material, manufactured by Rogers Corp. in the late 1980s, changed entirely what RF/microwave engineers could select for circuit board materials. Up until that time, designers seeking options of high frequency materials could select laminates with low or high dielectric constant, based on polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE). However, these materials usually had the disadvantage of having high coefficients of thermal expansion, which usually led to dimensional stability problems and plated through hole (PTH) failures. Another problem encountered with materials based on PTFE was stability of the dielectric constant vs. temperature. The RT/duroid 6002 product changed all that by becoming the first material designed...

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