Gold Innovations Blog

Yesterday afternoon at IMAPS 2009, we heard from Samson Shahbazi of Heraeus Materials Technologies on the subject of ‘Cost Effective Use of Gold in Thick Film Conductors’. Samson explained that designers of hybrid circuits had a choice between three basic classes of gold conductor; gold powder, flake and resinates. He went on to explain the relatives benefits of each. What was really interesting was that in response to a question from the audience along the lines of ‘what cheaper alternative materials and technologies are becoming available to replace gold in this application?’, the response was ‘there is nothing that offers anything like comparable performance to gold’. This looks like one application for gold that isn’t going to disappear in the short-term…..