Electronic Glossary

What is a Metal Film Resistor?   A Metal Film Resistor is an axial resistor with a thin metal film as the resistive element, which is usually deposited on a non-conducting ceramic body.       Other film type resistors …

What is a Metal Oxide Resistor?   A Metal Oxide Resistor (or Metal Oxide Film Resistor) is a fixed value, axial resistor which is made of ceramic rod that is coated with a thin film of metal oxides, such as …

MG 8330 Silver Conductive Epoxy is from MG Chemicals, and it’s an electrically conductive, silver-filled 2-part epoxy adhesive. It is smooth, non-sagging, thixotropic, and bonds well to a wide variety of substrates. This product allows for quick, cold-soldering repairs. It …

Monolithic Integrated Circuit (IC)

What is Mica Capacitor?   Mica Capacitor is one kind of capacitor where the mica (silicate mineral) is used as a dielectric material that can be found in rocks, granites, etc. This material plays a key role in electrical applications …

What Is Micro BGA (Ball Grid Array), MicroBGA, or μBGA?   The Micro BGA is one of the most advanced surface mount devices (SMDs) and is quickly becoming the package of choice for the electronic circuit designer. A micro BGA …

Very fine lines 2mil and less and small micro vias 3 mil and less.

What’s micro SMD?   Micro SMD is a wafer level chip-scale package (WLCSP), was first introduced by National Instrument in September 1998. Micro SMD package has the following features:   Package size equal to die size Smallest footprint per I/O …

What’s Mirco SMDxt?   Micro SMDxt or USMDXT, are the abbreviations of Micro Surface-mount Device Extended Technology, which is a wafer level chip scale package (WLCSP) (or we call it as a DSBGA) with the following features: Package size equal …

Micro-Sectioning , also called Microsection Analysis, is a process to analyze hole integrity of PTH, blind vias and buried vias based on a PCB Micro-Section.