Carrier tapes are essential carrying and packaging materials for the surface automatic mounting of electronic parts. Excellent counter measures for static electricity and accuracy requirements.

Materials
The most common materials used for making carrier tapes are polystyrene, polycarbonate, styrenic alloy and amorphous-polyethylene terephalate (APET). The materials used are specially formulated to provide consistent sealing strength and stable surface resistivity.

Polycarbonate is an amorphous material with excellent impact strength. Its mechanical properties allow it to be molded to very tight tolerances. It is available in non-conductive, static-dissipative, and conductive formats. Polystyrene is an inexpensive and hard plastic. It offers exceptional strength and stability over time and temperature variations. Polystyrene carrier tape is commonly combined with carbon and available in a static-dissipative format.

Features

• Protects from electrostatic mechanical damage
• Heat and pressure sensitive
• Can be conductive or non-conductive
• Help deliver productivity
• High performance capability
• Trouble-free operation
• Manufactured in accordance with EAI standards
• Reliable and convenient means of protecting and transporting electrical and electronic devices
• Available in various mold sizes and materials

Applications

• Chip resistor, chip capacitor, chip inductors, chip transformers, chip oscillators
• Chip coils, chip LED, chip varistors, die
• Used for packaging components in electronic industry
• Wafer level packaging
• Packaging of static sensitive type components such as microprocessors