Novel Low Temperature, PET-based Flexible Printed Circuit Assembly Solutions (Printed Electronics Europe 2019)

 

Rahul Raut is Director, Strategy and Technology Acquisition at Alpha Assembly Solutions, South Plainfield, NJ. Currently, Raut is responsible for leading New Business Development (NBD) Program and for building and deploying Growth Strategies. He is also responsible for developing strategically focused collaborations, partnerships and joint ventures with various Universities, Consortia's, and external Customers.

Currently, Raut is also a 'Visiting Academics' at The University of Manchester's, National Graphene Institute (NGI), Manchester, UK.

He is author and co-author of more than 40 technical papers at various International Conferences. Topics covered include Flexible, Formable Electronics & Printed Electronics, Advanced Materials, Assembly Processes, Thermal Management, Sustainability and in Emerging Technologies such as Energy and Graphene & 2D Materials. He is also co-inventor of multiple Patents.

Raut has a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering and a Master's degree in Industrial Engineering. He is a certified Six Sigma Black Belt in DMAIC and DFSS streams. Raut also has an Executive Certificate in Management and Leadership, from Sloan School of Management, MIT, MA.

Alpha Assembly Solutions, a MacDermid Performance Solutions Business, is the global leader in the development, manufacturing and sales of innovative specialty materials used in a wide range of industry segments, including electronics assembly, power electronics, die attach, LED lighting, photovoltaics, semiconductor packaging, automotive, flexible & printed electroncis and others.

 

With a unique global presence in over 30 locations throughout the Asia Pacific, Americas and Europe regions, Alpha supplies a full line of ALPHA® electronics assembly material products, including Solder Paste, Exactalloy® Solder Preforms, Cored Solder Wire Solder, Wave Soldering Fluxes, Bar Solder Alloys, and Stencils. Alpha serves the Flexible, Formable & Printed Electronics market through a comprehensive offering of Silver Inks, Carbon Inks, Dielectric Inks, Electronic Adhesives and Low Temperature Solder Pastes. It offers die attach product technologies to the power electronics segment in its Argomax®, Atrox™ and Fortibond™ brands.

 

For the LED segment, Alpha offers its Lumet™ products covering applications from die attach to systems assembly in the LED manufacturing process. Alpha also offers product technologies for the Photovoltaic segment, including high performance liquid fluxes and solder alloys for producing standard ribbon and bus bar, as well as, solder pastes, cored wire, conductive adhesives and preforms for use in PV module assembly. Also, Alpha's Advanced Materials unit is the leader in electronic polymers and solder materials for semiconductor packaging applications.

 

Since its founding in 1872, Alpha has been committed to developing and manufacturing the highest quality specialty materials. For more information, visit www.AlphaAssembly.com .