“3M Electronics announced today that its advanced laminate, 3M embedded capacitor material, is RoHS compliant.(a) OEMs and printed circuit board fabricators are using this innovative material to help increase speed and performance of their boards. They are also using the material to meet the requirements of space-constrained designs common in portable products and military applications. 3M embedded capacitance material can be made with a dielectric thickness down to 8 microns and a capacitance density over 10 nanofarads per square inch, which makes it among the thinnest and highest capacitance density materials available for embedding planar capacitance in circuit boards. When used as “power” and “ground” layers in a multilayer PCB, this material effectively becomes a shared decoupling capacitor inside the board, allowing for the elimination of many discrete surface-mount capacitors and their associated vias. The material is compatible with all rigid and flex PCB processing including laser drilling. Fabricators and OEMs worldwide can use this material without purchasing a license from 3M. Consequently, such OEMs are unrestricted in their choice of fabricator.” Source: 3M via businesswire.com