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While conformal coatings increase the lifetime of electronic devices by providing a thin barrier that strengthens their ability to withstand harsh environmental conditions, adhesives and encapsulants provide a significantly higher level of protection on the entire assembly.

The most common properties of adhesives and encapsulants include:

• creating environmental seals that protect against moisture and corrosion,
• providing high-temperature resistance,
• increasing shock and vibration dampening,
• generating strong bonds to a variety of substrates,
• maintaining low shrinkage, and
• offering thermal conductivity.

Electronics continue to be placed into harsher environments, and PCB component vibration dampening remains a challenge for many industries. When the solder connection strength is not going to be sufficient to withstand years of vibration, there is a solution: staking materials.

Numerous fields of industry manufacture products that are prone to high-vibration environments. Some of them are: