Tape Casting and Lamination

Tape casting is an efficient wet process for forming thin, uniform sheets of ceramics and metals. These sheets may be used and fired individually, or combined to make multi-material products, components and integrated circuitry. Composed of powder, solvent and organic additives, a tape slurry is cast onto an impermeable carrier and dried to form a strong, flexible sheet capable of being shaped and perforated and may be used as a base layer upon which to screen-print functional materials. After firing, a potentially complex, three-dimensional, multi-material component can be manufactured.