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Gold, H. Czupryna, G. Robinson, J. M. Levy, R. D. Purifying Air Force Plating Baths by Chelate Ion Exchange Final Report to Headquarters, Air Force Engineering and Service Center, Tyndall AFB, FL, Foster-Miller, Inc., July 1985. 

Richard Lusignea, Joseph Piche, and Richard Mathisen Foster-Miller, Inc., 350 Second Avenue, Waltham, MA 02254... 

Ordered polymer films made from poly benzthiazole (PBZT) and poly benzoxazole (PBO) can be used as substrates for multilayer printed circuit boards and advanced interconnects to fill the current need for high speed, high density packaging. Foster-Miller, Inc. has made thin substrates (0.002 in.) using biaxially oriented liquid crystal polymer films processed from nematic solutions. PBZT films were processed and laminated to make a substrate with dielectric constant of 2.8 at 1 MHz, and a controllable CTE of 3 to 7 ppm/°C. The films were evaluated for use in multilayer boards (MLBs) which require thin interconnect substrates with uniform controllable coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE), excellent dielectric properties, low moisture absorption, high temperature capability, and simple reliable processing methods. We found that ordered polymer films surpass the limitations of fiber reinforced resins and meet the requirements of future chip-to-chip interconnection. 

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Eormato RM, Kovar RE, Osenar P Landrau N, Rubin LS. Composite solid polymer electrolyte membranes. US patent 7052793, assigned to Foster-Miller, Inc., Waltham, MA 2006. 

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