There are four key reasons why Parylene masking and de-masking is more difficult compared to liquid conformal coatings.
These are:
- Parylene is a vapour. When you are masking against a gas rather than a liquid then there is more of a challenge. So you need to provide a much better barrier with the masking process compared to the liquid coatings.
- Parylene is immersion. Most liquid conformal coatings are sprayed and so the capillary is less compared to immersion in a limitless supply of material.
- Stripping Parylene is hard. It is much harder to remove unwanted Parylene material on components that should not have been coated. Parylene is chemically inert (therefore harder to strip off or remove) and more difficult to see (no UV trace in most Parylene coatings). Mistakes can be more costly.
- The Parylene can bond more to the masking materials. When the Parylene is deposited on the masking materials and circuit board it can bind the two together and it can take significant effort and care to remove the masking materials without damaging the board or the Parylene coating integrity.
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