Sil Pad
Sil Pad
Sil Pad® is a thermally conductive insulator that has a wide reaching use in different applications. Sil Pad® is usually provided on the thinner side. These pads require higher pressure than their gap filling pads mentioned above. The benefits of Sil Pad® include:
- Great thermal performance
These thermal pads are designed for great thermal performance. It is important to keep in mind that while thermal conductivity is an important metric, its not the only metric. Thermal impedence, thickness, hardness are all important qualities to look at.
- Eliminates clean-up from thermal greases
Clean-up from greases can create an extraordinary mess. Having a neat, clean solution for your thermal issue can be incredibly useful.
- Sil Pad® has an efficient cost structure
Sil Pad® is able to offer great performance, ease of assembly, good reliability and a great cost/benefit ratio.
Sil Pad® has a long list of different products, all of these different types of Sil Pad® have different qualities and benefits.
The first thing to know when reviewing the types of Sil-Pad available is there is two types of reinforcement. There is film reinforcement, and there is also a fiberglass reinforcement. In Sil-Pads, theres fiberglass, and there is polyimide reinforcement. You will notice thermal pads reinforced with Fiberglass suffer a little bit on dielectric performance compared to polyimide film reinforced versions.
- Sil Pad® 400, SP400 aka SIL PAD TSP 900- Fiberglass Reinforcement
- Sil Pad® 800, SP800 aka SIL PAD TSP 1600-Fiberglass Reinforcement
- Sil Pad® 980, SP980 aka SIL PAD TSP 1680-Fiberglass Reinforcement
- Sil Pad® A1500, SPA1500 aka SIL PAD TSP A2000-Fiberglass Reinforcement
- Sil Pad® 1200, SP1200 aka SIL PAD TSP 1800-Fiberglass Reinforcement
- Sil Pad® 2000, SP2000 aka SIL PAD TSP 3500-Fiberglass Reinforcement
- Sil Pad® A2000, SPA2000 aka SIL PAD TSP A3000-Fiberglass Reinforcement
- Sil Pad® K6, SPK6, aka SIL PAD TSP K1100-Polyimide Reinforcement
- Sil Pad® K10, SPK10 aka SIL PAD TSP K1300-Polyimide Reinforcement
NEDC die-cuts or otherwise converts Sil Pad® products into finished thermal pads through waterjet cutting or die-cutting. Sil Pad® is usually available with pressure-sensitive adhesive depending on the specific pad. In addition, some are available with tape on both sides of the pad.
