Hutchinson Technology





HTI Product Development Services
 
HTI offers a broad set of development capabilities, including well-equipped labs and engineering know-how, to help in your precision component and microelectronics product and process development. As a leading-edge, high volume producer of precision components, HTI has extensively equipped world-class process and product development labs that enable rapid innovation – from proof-of-concept to lab-scale optimization. The capabilities are best suited for products and processes where layer thicknesses, minimum feature sizes, and alignment requirements are on the scale of 10s-100s of micrometers.


Product and Markets

 
Some of the products and markets where HTI's product and process development capabilities are best suited include:
  • Medical devices (catheters lumens, stents, blades, sealing devices)
  • Printed circuits (rigid-flex, flexible, rigid board, high density interconnects)
  • Energy generation and storage (thin film batteries, fuel cells, supercapcitors, solar)

General Capabilities
  • Photolithography: Coat/Expose/Develop/Strip (10 µm resolution)
  • Photo-chemical Milling (Etching)
  • Thin Film Deposition (PVD/Sputtering)
  • Electroplating and Electroless Plating
  • Polymer Coating, Patterning, and Treating
  • Termination (Wire Bond, Solder Bond)
  • Spot Welding (Resistance & Laser)
  • Adhesive Dispense & Die Attach
  • Precision Alignment (Fixture & Vision Aided)
  • Precision Forming (Mechanical & Laser)
  • Panel to Piece-Part Handling
  • Precision Cutting / Shearing
  • Supporting Metrology