The Microspheres Hiding in your Phone's Screen
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Today we're looking at Anisotropic Conductive Film (ACF) or tape. This is a special tape that's used widely in LCD/OLED products to bond the electrical connectors to the glass display.

It uses small plastic microspheres coated in metal to create the electrical connection, and the arrangement allows a single piece of tape to establish connections in only the "Z axis" of the tape (through the thickness), without connecting adjacent pads

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