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Electronics + Product Durability Testing

Texture testing instruments to measure and analyze the physical behaviors and durability of electronics products and adhesives.

Texture analysis instruments for measuring the physical characteristics of electronics products and electronic adhesives, solder paste, and connectors.

Texture Technologies has been serving the electronics industry for approximately 20 years, providing best-in-class Texture Analyzers to electronics manufacturers, electronics research and development facilities, and electrical engineering departments in academia nationwide. The Stable Micro Systems’ family of texture analysis instruments are extremely easy-to-use and very flexible, providing accurate and reproducible test results – an especially important requirement for testing market-ready, consumer electronics products.

Testing many electronic industry products such as solder paste, silicone gels and a wide variety of adhesives and films has never been easier. With the TA.XTPlus Texture Analyzer you can measure the physical characteristics of virtually any product. Electronics manufacturers no longer need to rely on crude firmness tests, non-reproducible tack tests, or other tests which provide only single parameters about your products. If you are designing for specific performance and durability requirements, the TA.XTPlus provides best-in-class ease of use, flexibility, accuracy and repeatability, making it an extremely popular method for quantifying your products.

A popular peripheral for the TA.XTPlus is the Resistance Conversion Unit (M/OHM Milli Ohm Meter), a device which simultaneously captures analog output alongside force and distance measurements. The RCU is extensively used by the electronics industry to analyze the resistance of many different materials during compression, tension and other stress-strain tests. Typical applications involve simultaneously measuring force, distance and resistance of conductive or RF characteristics of gaskets and membranes. The RCU is also used to test membrane switches, medical device connectors and conductive flexible materials.

Below is an overview of the types of electronics products that can be tested with our electronics testing instruments as well as the quantifiable characteristics and behaviors that can be determined with our electronics testing equipment. Ask us about our references in the gel, electronics, and adhesive industry, and for our brochures, application studies, and article reprints from Adhesive & Sealants Industry & Adhesive Age magazines.

    Electronics Products Which Can be Tested

  • Potting Gels
  • Silicone Gels
  • Glues
  • Pressure Sensitive Adhesives and Tapes
  • Sealants
  • Wafer Dicing Tapes
  • Underfill Epoxies
  • Labels
  • Connectors
  • Wafer Films
  • Lubricants
  • Epoxies
  • Waxes
  • Chip - Die Break and Fracturability

    Quantifiable Characteristics of Silicone and Other Gels

  • Gel Firmness
  • Gel Relaxation
  • Gel Adhesion
  • Gel Adhesion vs. Cohesion
  • Gel Extensibility
  • Tack
  • Cure Behaviors and Cure Tack Time
  • Resilience

    Quantifiable Adhesive Behaviors

  • Adhesiveness
  • Quick Stick
  • Tackiness
  • Green Strength and Cure Behaviors Cohesiveness
  • Shear Strength and Creep
  • Stringiness and 'legs'
  • Extensibility Film & Tensile Strength
  • 180 degree Peel strength
  • 90 degree Peel strength
  • Floating Peel Strength