| Process part |
Process |
Products |
Attributes & Functions |
Main Usages |
Pre
Treatment |
Cleaner |
110/110HS |
Removing the oxide, duty, fingerprint |
Pre-process de-oiling of Regular PCB |
| 115 |
| Etching |
120 |
Form roughness on surface to enhance bonding |
FPCB/Regular PCB |
| 120S |
| 121S |
| 123 |
| 123 |
| 130 |
| 135 |
| 140 |
| 150 |
| Soda Ash |
180 |
Dry Film removal |
Regular PCB |
Brown
Oxide |
De-oil |
210 |
Removes oxide film, dust and finger prints from copper film surface |
Regular PCB |
| Pre-dip |
240 |
Prevents infusion of other chemicals into oxide |
Regular PCB |
| Oxide |
260 |
Acidic oxide agent with strong acid-endurance and provides oxide film of organic metal |
FPCB/Regular PCB |
| De-oil |
270 |
Removes oxide film, dust and finger prints from copper film surface |
Regular PCB |
| Oxide |
280 |
Turns interior layer copper film surface into dark copper oxide |
Regular PCB |
| Oxide |
290 |
Enhances bonding between interior circuit layers and post-process black oxides |
Regular PCB |
| De-smear |
Sweller |
310/315 |
Clean smudges and oil from surface; removes epoxy residue inside holes |
FPCB/Regular PCB |
| De-smear |
340 |
Removes drill smear on epoxy surfaces with fiber residue |
| Neutralizer |
370 |
Removes foreign matters from inside holes |
PTH
|
De-oil |
410/410P |
Removes oil from glass fiber surfaces and epoxy surfaces to maximize catalyst or bonding function |
FPCB/Regular PCB/EMI |
| Pre-dip |
430/435 |
Protects catalyst |
| Catalyst |
440/445 |
Catalyst is bonded on surfaces |
| Activation |
450/455 |
Bonded catalyst is augmented |
| Chemical Copper |
460/460F/465 |
Copper plating of Through Holes on PCB |
| 4650 |
Assign conductivity through EMI plating |
Immersion
Tin |
De-oil |
510 |
Removes finger prints and other pollutants from PCB surfaces |
FPCB/Regular PCB/EMI |
| Etching |
520 |
Forms roughness on surface to enhance bonding |
| Tin Plating |
560 |
Forms uniform level Tin plating layer of 0.8~1.2 on copper film surface |
ENIG
|
De-oil |
610 |
Removes oxide film, dust and finger prints from PCB surface |
FPCB/Regular PCB
non-iron, steel, cast iron, etc. |
| Etching |
620 |
Forms roughness on surface to enhance bonding |
| Activation |
640 |
Bonds Palladium on copper areas to act as activator catalyst for extraction of nickel |
| Nickel Plating |
660 |
Under layer plating for gold plating |
| Gold Plating |
680 |
Substitution type strike, non-electrolytic plating with excellent corrosion-resistance and solderability of Nickel |
Stripper
|
Lead Removal |
711/715 |
Sn/Pb removal agent of nitric acid base |
FPCB/ Regular PCB |
| Rack Removal |
720 |
Removes Sn/Pb and Du extracted in plating tub and rack |
| Dry Film Removal |
730/731/740 |
Dry Film removal agent |
| Acid Etching |
760 |
Copper film etching for circuit formation in Panel Manufacturing Process |
| Alkali Etching |
771 |
Copper film etching for circuit formation in Panel Manufacturing Process |
Electrolytic
Plating |
Electric copper brightener |
810/813 |
Additive for electric copper plating over non-electrolytic copper plating |
FPCB/ Regular PCB |
| Solder brightener |
830 |
Additive to solder plating solution for pattern protection |
Regular PCB |
| Others |
PSR Removal Agent |
960 |
Completely removes fully hardened dry film and photo-imageable solder mask |
Regular PCB |
| Oxidation prevention agent |
970 |
Concentrated oxidization prevention agent that delays surface oxidation as much as possible on electrolytic copper plating, non-electrolytic copper plating, silver plating, solder plating and non-iron metals |
FPCB/ Regular PCB |
| Defoaming agent |
980 |
Defoaming agent of non-silicon type added to development agent and peeling agent of dry film, PSR and LPR Ink |
FPCB/ Regular PCB |
| Equipment detergent |
990 |
Washing liquid of spray type to wash spray devices
(development, etching and peeling) |
Regular PCB |