Component · Packaging & Assembly
Ceramic package
A hermetic package body made from co-fired alumina or aluminium nitride with refractory metal wiring, sealed with a metal or ceramic lid. It offers hermeticity, high thermal conductivity and wide temperature range at high cost.
- Also known as
- CERDIP, CPGA, LTCC package, HTCC package
- Type
- Component
- Domain
- Packaging & Assembly, Substrates
Notes
Now confined mostly to space, military, RF power and optical applications where plastic bodies cannot meet the environment.
Related terms
- PGA
- Hermetic sealing
- Junction temperature
- MCM
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