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High-Reliability Cleaning and Conformal Coating Conference November 13-15, 2012 | Chicago, Illinois | Crowne Plaza Hotel-O'Hare CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Abstracts Due: APRIL 2, 2012 Submit an abstract today! The 2012 High-Reliability Cleaning and Conformal Coating Conference is focused on electronic assembly reliability and the influence that cleanliness and coating has on producing reliable hardware. How clean is clean is more challenging to answer as conductors and circuit traces are increasingly narrower. What is acceptably clean for one segment of the industry may be unacceptable in more demanding segments. The Conference will feature technical sessions, workshops, tabletop exhibits and networking activities. This comprehensive event will provide intense coverage of technological developments in all areas of cleaning and coating, applied to electronic assemblies. Building on the first two successful conferences in 2008 and 2010, it will bring together electronics industry professionals from diverse backgrounds with common interests in coating and cleaning of electronic assemblies. The High-Reliability Cleaning and Conformal Coating Conference is supported by IPC and SMTA to address these important issues in a single forum. It has developed into a highly-regarded event on an international level, well-attended by subject matter experts and industry leaders. CONFERENCE TOPICS You are invited to submit an abstract, presenting new developments in the following categories: Electrical Performance and Reliability: failure mechanisms, contamination type and concentration, and residue remaining under bottom-termination components Conformal Coating: Reliability and coating integrity, coating types, coating over flux residues, and coating adhesion Cleaning: residues and reliability, cleaning materials, process control, cleaning equipment, cleaning advanced packages Test Methods: standards and controls; direct, indirect, and analytical testing Environmental: rinse-water treatment and recovery, VOCs, Air, REACH IMPORTANT DATES April 2 Submission of abstract May 1 Notification of acceptance October 3 Submission of completed presentation SUBMISSION GUIDELINES For Technical Paper And Presentation Abstracts Abstracts are solicited to describe original and unpublished work. The abstract should be at least 300 words and must clearly state purpose, results, and conclusions. Technical conference agenda presentations will be limited to 30-40 minutes, including five minutes for questions. The technical conference will take place November 14-15, and Workshops will take place on November 13. CALL FOR WORKSHOPS All submissions must be in English, noncommercial in nature, and submitted no later than April 2, 2012. Submit your abstract with professional biography to: www.smta.org/education/abstract_add.cfm?event_id=721. General Chair: Mike Bixenman, Kyzen Corporation - Chief Technology Officer PROMOTIONAL OPPORTUNITIES With a tabletop exhibit or sponsorship, you are an active participant in the on-site event - and you reach the global audience for this topic with your logo on electronic marketing communications. Contact Maria Labriola at MariaLabriola@ipc.org for more information.