Isola Tachyon 100G

Tachyon 100G laminate materials are designed for very high-speed digital applications up to and beyond data rates of 100 Gb/s.

Tachyon 100G materials exhibit exceptional electrical properties that are very stable over a broad frequency and temperature range between -55°C and +125°C up to 100 GHz. These electrical properties provide designers a scalable solution for next generation designs of backplanes and daughter cards, enabling 10x improvements from 10 Gb/s data rates.

Isola has developed Tachyon 100G with the highest level of thermal performance for high layer count line cards. The very low Z-axis CTE makes it a perfect choice for fine pitch BGA applications of 0.8 mm or less.  The material is optimized with the use of spread glass to mitigate skew, improve rise times, reduce jitter, and increase eye width/height and that use ultra smooth VLP2 (2um Rz) copper that significantly reduces conductor losses.

SPECIFICATIONS

  • Product Features
    • High Thermal Performance
      • Tg: 185°C (DSC)
      • Td: 380°C (TGA @ 5% wt loss)
      • Low CTE in the Z-axis – 2.5% (50-260°C)
    • T260: >60 minutes
    • T288: >60 minutes
    • T300: >20 minutes
    • RoHS Compliant
    • Electrical Properties
      • Dk: 3.02
      • Df: 0.0021
      • Typical electrical properties over a broad frequency and temperature range per IPC-TM-650-2.5.5.5
    • Core Material Standard Availability
      • Thickness: 0.002″ to 0.018″ (0.6 mm to 0.05 mm)
      • Available in full size sheet or panel form
    • Prepreg Standard Availability
      • Roll or panel form
      • Tooling of prepreg panels available
    • Copper Foil Type Standard Availability
      • VLP-2 (2 micron)
      • Standard HTE Grade 3 available upon request
      • RTF (Reverse Treat Foil) available upon request
    • Copper Weights
      • ½, 1 and 2 oz (18, 38 and 70 µm) available
      • Heavier copper available upon request
      • Thinner copper foil available upon request
    • Glass Fabric Standard Availability
      • Square weave glass fabric
      • Spread glass fabric
    • Industry Approvals
      • UL 94 V-0
      • UL Qualified – 130 MOT
      • Non-ANSI
      • IPC-4103 /17