Parylene Alternatives

Posted by Sean Horn on Fri, Jan 18, 2013

Parylene conformal coating is a very robust coating, but sometimes it is not the right fit for a customer’s application for one reason or another.  The entire conformal coating process is based on first identifying the standards to be used and customer’s protection desired.  It would therefore only make sense that there are alternatives to […]

What Is Type XY Conformal Coating?

Posted by Sean Horn on Wed, Jan 9, 2013

Type XY conformal coating refers to parylene conformal coating.  Parylene gets the type XY from its’ full name, para-xylylene.   It was shortened to parylene and eventually type XY so that it could be grouped with the other conformal coatings (type AR, UR, etc.).

Parylene Disadvantages

Posted by Sean Horn on Wed, Oct 17, 2012

Parylene offers the best protection against solvents of any conformal coating.  It is also brings to the table excellent moisture and gas protection, very high dielectric strength, and is bio-compatible.  Even with all of these benefits, there are still some disadvantages to using parylene versus other conformal coatings.