Packaging with Liquid Crystal Polymer

Electronics packages provide housing, protection, electrical interconnections, thermal dissipation, and assembly for integrated circuits and devices. At high frequency, cavity packages are used more often than over-molded plastic packages to achieve lower electrical losses. The major drawback of cavity packages is the open area that water and other contamination can be accumulated on the surface of a packaged device to cause degradation such as corrosion.

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