Chemical Etching for Communication Technologies

Photochemical etching offers economical and productive solutions for wireless communications.

Various thin gauge metal parts require complex metal geometries used in applications from handsets, Bluetooth devices, WiFi, Wimax, cellular towers and satellite components. Precision metal etching offers both speed and cost savings compared to alternative fabrication methods.

Copper alloys, including brass and beryllium copper, are most frequently chemically etched for current- or signal-carrying applications. A relatively few types of parts may be photoetched in carbon or galvanized steel. Many etched parts are electroplated with nickel under silver, gold or palladium.

Chemical etching can produce a limitless variety of pole, compensator, multiplexer, antenna, ground plane, element, attenuator, modulator, scintillator, wave guide slot arrays, loop, patch and wiper designs. Burr-free photo etched parts are well suited to passive RF conditioning devices.