Improve Electronics Manufacturing Yield with Openair-Plasma^®

In electronics manufacturing, surface treatment is essential for ensuring strong adhesion between dissimilar materials, enhancing coating wettability, and maintaining long-term reliability. Plasmatreat’s Openair-Plasma^® technology delivers precise, selective, and inline-capable plasma surface treatment under atmospheric pressure—without the use of vacuum chambers or chemical primers.

Variety of Applications

A vacuum is no longer required for plasma treatment – e.g. when cleaning wafers or during chip bonding – so process flows can be greatly simplified...

Any pretreatment method that even comes close to conducting electrical potential creates shorts resulting in the destruction of layout and components...

Power electronics is a rapidly evolving field, driven by advancements in technology, increasing demand for energy efficiency, and the shift towards renewable energy sources.

Environmentally friendly manufacturing technologies and avoiding the use of VOC’s (volatile organic compounds) in cell phone or laptop production...

The Openair-Plasma® process is a surface treatment with the unique feature that it is completely potential free. Plasma coatings also protected vulnerable displays...

LED technology has developed at a very rapid pace for general-purpose lighting applications. Compared to traditional lighting technologies, LEDs have some outstanding advantages

Pretreatment with Openair-Plasma® facilitates the complex process of conformal coating by extending the process window and increasing the quality of the coating.

From high-voltage lines to surface mount components (SMDs), plastic-to-metal bonds are commonly used to fix electrical contacts and protect them against external environmental (weather) conditions.

Flexible electronics is one of the most popular and rapidly emerging technologies. Worldwide, designers and engineers are developing smart, wearable electronic systems with useful, often complex functions.

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Discover how our Openair-Plasma^® technology can enhance your processes. From the initial concept to successful implementation, we offer personalized, innovative, and sustainable support every step of the way.

The introduction of Openair-Plasma^® was a milestone in the development of our sensor production.

Dr. Tobias Eckert, Head of Potentiometer Technology Centre, Novotechnik Messwertaufnehmer OHG

Benefits of Openair-Plasma^® technology

Selective: switch on and off on the fly
Super-fine cleaning (component cleaning) without damaging sensitive structures
Targeted functionalization of surfaces for selective additional processing
Environmentally friendly: no wet chemicals required
Cost-effective: operates with oil-free compressed air
In-line capability: no effect on process time because the plasma process takes less time than the conformal coating process

Openair-Plasma^® process

Openair-Plasma^® is used to modify surface characteristics so as to enhance the adhesion of materials (such as coatings) to the substrate (PCB). It removes all organic and silicone-based impurities. Oxygen in the form of hydroxyl and ketone groups are incorporated into non-polar surfaces to activate the surface. The result is high surface energy (over 72mN/m) and in most cases, complete wettability.