ACW will be at the JPCA 2026 Show (June 10-12) in the Tokyo Big Sight at Booth 3F-51. Visit us to discuss adhesive applications in electronics, opto-electronics and photonics or ACW’s imprint and working stamp resins. ACW’s premier adhesive for electronic and photonics applications is A535-AN, a UV-cured epoxy adhesive with high Tg and excellent Read More…
Category: UV-Cure Adhesives
CPO PIC MLA FAU ASIC SoC … Alphabet Soup or Next-Gen Electronics?
If you think this is alphabet soup, stop reading. If not, take a look at Addison Clear Wave’s epoxy adhesives for your active or passive alignments of fibers, lenses, waveguides, LEDs, lasers. A535-AN UV-curable epoxy adhesive is the standard of excellence for packaging applications in electronics and photonics. It boasts low shrinkage, outstanding adhesion, NASA Read More…
Adding Spacer Beads in Your Adhesive for Precise Bondline Widths? ACW Can Help.
Feb 11, 2020. A common method for obtaining precise bondline widths is to add spacer beads to an adhesive. Unfortunately, if you are doing that yourself, you likely have not had many pleasant experiences. ACW can eliminate the pain by adding the spacers for you. Spacer beads are a great way to give reproducible, precise Read More…
Antimony-Free UV-Cure Epoxy Adhesives
Many UV-cured epoxy adhesives contain antimony as an integral component in the photo-catalyst. That can be a problem because antimony compounds are considered to be environmental hazards. Antimony-containing epoxies are tightly regulated in Japan, and one can expect to see increasing restrictions on them in upcoming years. Recent product development research at ACW has targeted Read More…
Don’t Move A535-AN
No Movement of Aligned Parts after Reliability Testing ACW’s A535-AN has been used for demanding applications in optics, optoelectronics and semiconductor fields for years. It is a single component, medium viscosity, UV-curable epoxy with six-month shelf life and three-month working life at room temperature. It can be cured with conventional UV sources or 365 nm LED Read More…