Printed Circuit Board (PCB) become more and more popular with the development of integrated circuits, which is a very important part of electronic equipments, such as your phone, computer and your car. Printed Circuit Board have been used on Earth for a long time, if you don't know what PCB is before , please visit printed circuit board on Wikipedia for some basic knowledge. Now we would like to let you know our manufacturing process.

PCB Manufacturing Process

PCB manufacturing process is different for different PCB factories, different layers of PCB, but some steps are same and all of them will have to do. Single layer PCB and Double layers PCB are all use the raw material so that they don't need to do Lamination process, they are easy to do. So here we will show 4 layers PCB manufacturing process as multilayer PCB.

4 Layers PCB Manufacturing Process

Usually we fabricate 4 layes PCB as the following stackup, and we will show the manufacturing process as this 4 layers PCB. But here won't all the step just show some important step which can help you to know how we manufacture PCB, because it will make you lost if we list all the steps. But don't hesitate to contact if you need more information, we are always here for you.

Cutting Sheet

We have to cut a small size board from the big raw material, assume we will manufacture a PCB with the size 10 mm * 10 mm. As the following picture, you will find the raw material include two copper layers that will be final layer 2 and layer 3, and both are inner layer.

Chemical Clean

To get good quality of the etched pattern, and make sure the combination between corrosion resistant layer and substrate surface is strong, so the substrate surface must be without oxidation layer, oil, dirt, fingerprints, and other contaminants. So we need to do chemical clean.

Inner Layers

Circuit layer is a complex process, including Dry Film Lamination, Expose, Develop and Copper etching.

Lamination

After inner layers, we will laminate so that we can get a 4 layers structure from 2 layers structure

CNC Drilling

Plated Through Hole

After lamination and drilling, we get a 4 layers structure, but we need to do plated through holes to connect different layers.

Soldermask

Soldermask is used to protect the copper layers meanwhile avoid short circuit when SMT and weld.

Surface Finishing

PCB surface finishing includes HASL, OSP, ENIG and so on, which is protect pads and prolongs the self left, because it may take long time before we do SMT or weld .

Outline

After soldermask and surface finishing, at last we need V-Cut or Routing to make the final outline meet PCB files.

FQC, Packaging and Shipping

After outline, we will check the final PCB quality, package and ship to customers.

Now you may know how to fabricate PCB in our workshop, meanwhile we also welcome you to our factory to see more details, and please let us know if you would like to order PCB, Best Tech will be your best choice.