Rogers’ New RT/DUROID® Laminate Wins New Product Award
Release Date: 04/07/2009
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Chandler, AZ, April 7, 2009 – Rogers Corporation’s newly introduced RT/duroid® 5880LZ laminate has been recognized by a leading electronics publication– Printed Circuit Design & Fabrication magazine (PCD&F) – as one of the top new laminate products introduced during the past 12 months.
Recognition for the RT/duroid 5880LZ laminate, a product of Rogers Advanced Circuit Materials Division, comes in the form of the New Products Introduction Award (NPI), presented at the IPC Expo/Apex trade show held in Las Vegas March 31st to April 2nd.
PCD&F, in conjunction with its sister publication Circuits Assembly, recognized 33 companies for new product introductions in areas ranging from system modeling/verification tools and laminates to specialty materials, plating and assembly processes. Rogers’ RT/duroid 5880LZ won in the Laminate category.
Rogers’ RT/duroid 5880LZ material is a PTFE composite designed for exacting stripline and microstrip circuit applications. Its groundbreaking filler system results in very low density (1.37 gm/cm3), lightweight material, making it ideal for high performance, weight sensitive applications such as airborne antennas. RT/duroid 5880LZ laminate has a dielectric constant (Dk) of 1.96 @ 10GHz, providing the lowest Dk of a copper clad microwave material available today. Additionally, the dielectric constant is highly isotropic (same Dk in x, y, and z directions) and uniform from panel-to-panel and constant over a wide frequency range. RT/duroid 5880LZ is multilayer capable, enabled by a z-axis CTE of less than 46PPM/°C, and its low dissipation factor extends the usefulness of the material to Ku-band frequencies and above.
For more information on high frequency materials and advanced laminates from Rogers Corporation, visit www.rogerscorp.com/acm.
About Rogers Corporation
Rogers Corporation (NYSE:ROG), headquartered in Rogers, Conn., is a global technology leader in the development and manufacture of high performance specialty material products for a variety of applications in a wide range of markets including: portable communications, consumer products, communication infrastructure, ground transportation, and aerospace and defense. Most of the Company’s products are covered by trade secrets or patents. Rogers operates manufacturing facilities in Arizona, Connecticut, and Illinois in the U.S., in Gent, Belgium and in Suzhou, China. Asian sales offices are located in Japan, China, Taiwan, Korea, India and Singapore. Rogers has joint ventures in Japan and China with INOAC Corporation, in Taiwan with Chang Chun Plastics Co., Ltd. and in the U.S. with Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. The world runs better with Rogers.® http://www.rogerscorp.com