High Resolution LTCC Laser Processing in the Green and Fired State for Future Technologies
Abstract In this publication the results of laser structuring processes of LTCC substrates, screen printed and laser structured gold thick film lines and the processing procedures are presented. To investigate the compatibility of the laser processes into the conventional LTCC process chain the laser structuring was done in green as well as in fired state. Typical easy electrical patterns like miniaturized interdigital structures and meanders serve as examples of the reached resolution and geometrical borders of the laser structuring techniques at the Center of Micro- and Nanotechnologies of the TU Ilmenau (IMN Macro Nano®). The lateral precision and the topological shape are determined by laser scanning microscopy. The aimed structures have lines and spaces of 30 μm. A statistical evaluation is done to show the possibilities and the limits of the new laser structuring processes with picosecond UV laser ablation systems.