Vishay Specialty Thin Film (STF) combines advanced thin-film manufacturing capabilities with engineering expertise to help customers develop high-performance solutions for RF and microwave, photonics, sensing, high-power, and industrial applications. From initial design through volume production, we collaborate with customers to optimize electrical, thermal, and mechanical performance, simplify complex designs, accelerate time to market, and deliver cost-effective manufacturing solutions.
Already have a design? Vishay manufactures custom thin-film substrates and components to customer drawings and specifications, combining precision metallization, integrated passive components, and advanced ceramic processing.
Common fabrication capabilities
When your application requires more than conventional fabrication, Vishay engineers work with your team to develop a manufacturable solution. We help evaluate materials, metallization, RF performance, thermal management, and component integration to meet demanding design requirements.
Common custom development applications
Custom Service designs developed through this program are created exclusively for you. We do not add customer-specific designs to our general product catalog or make them available to any other party. Your requirements, your specifications, and your intellectual property remain confidential throughout every stage of our engagement.
Provide your design, application requirements, or performance objectives. Our team will review the information and identify the manufacturing capabilities needed.
Vishay engineers evaluate materials, metallization, feature dimensions, electrical performance, thermal requirements, and manufacturability.
Explore how Vishay thin-film technologies address challenges in high-frequency performance, thermal management, miniaturization, and component integration.
Challenge
The customer approached Vishay when their existing panel potentiometer supplier discontinued production of a part used on an established and popular piece of equipment. To avoid a costly redesign, an existing panel potentiometer needed to be adapted to meet the customer’s electrical requirements. It would also have to fit the control panel insertion / retention envelope and existing markings, in addition to the PCB assembly attachment system.
Whether you have a completed design or need engineering assistance developing a custom solution, Vishay Specialty Thin Film can help evaluate your requirements and identify a manufacturing approach.
Following design review and feasibility assessment, we support prototype fabrication, qualification requirements, and transition to production.
Challenge
Our customer was evaluating a solution for power electronics equipment that required the use of several DC-Link capacitors on the same PCB, while ensuring that the devices would support critical vibration profiles. The products being considered for the application had a significantly high mass of around 100 g, and were attached to the PCB via four lead wires with 1.2 mm diameters. While testing these parts under severe vibration profiles, the customer reported broken lead wires. The challenge was clear: how can such high mass parts withstand severe vibration profiles, while maintaining a similar footprint on the PCB?
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