3M Company is one of the leading double sided tape manufacturers .They also own the Scotch brand (known for the scotch tape product). 3M Double-Sided tape is fast growing to be a house-hold name because it offers both quality and high performance. This versatile type of sticky, strong tape provides permanent solutions for a variety of high performance applications. The 3M double sided tape bond aggressively to most surfaces including metal, glass and paper.
One of their known products is the 3M thermal double sided tape. Don’t want to put permanent bonding epoxy on your high dollar video card? Use this cheap and easy double sided thermal tape to achieve similar cooling results without the worries. 3M thermal double sided tape provides an effective thermal interface between electronic components and heat sinks. These materials have exceptional bonding properties -eliminating the need for mechanical fasteners. The tape has high bond strength, pressure sensitive acrylic adhesive, loaded with aluminum oxide and coated onto 0.002 inch (0.050 mm) aluminum carrier. The aluminum foil provides added thermal conductivity for applications where electrical isolation is not required.
3M offers a variety of thermal double sided tape, such as:
- 3M™ Thermally Conductive Acrylic Soft Tape. Acrylic Soft Tape is a flame retardant specialty tape used for very large panels or surfaces where a very conformable thermal tape is needed to achieve good wet-out adhesion.
- 3M™ Thermally Conductive Adhesive Transfer Tape 8805. 3M’s highest mechanical strength thermally conductive tape, also offering improved surface wetout and excellent shock performance. 5 mils thick, 5.8 N/cm peel strength.
- 3M™ Thermally Conductive Adhesive Transfer Tape 8810. 3M’s highest mechanical strength thermally conductive tape, also offering improved surface wetout and excellent shock performance. 10 mils thick, 8.3 N/cm peel strength.
- 3M™ Thermally Conductive Adhesive Transfer Tape 8815. 3M’s highest mechanical strength thermally conductive tape, also offering improved surface wetout and excellent shock performance. 15 mils thick, 8.3 N/cm peel strength.
- 3M™ Thermally Conductive Adhesive Transfer Tape 8820. 3M’s highest mechanical strength thermally conductive tape, also offering improved surface wetout and excellent shock performance. 20 mils thick, 8.3 N/cm peel strength.
- 3M™ Thermally Conductive Adhesive Transfer Tape 9882. 2.0 mil (0.05 mm) thermally conductive adhesive transfer tape for mounting flexible heating foils, temperature indicating films and thermoelectric cooling modules, as well as bonding flexible circuits to heat sinks.
- 3M™ Thermally Conductive Adhesive Transfer Tape 9885. 5.0 mil (0.13 mm) thermally conductive adhesive transfer tape for mounting thermoelectric cooling modules, bonding flexible circuits to heat sinks, bonding heat sinks to microprocessors and bonding TAB-mounted IC to PCB.
- 3M™ Thermally Conductive Adhesive Transfer Tape 9890. 10.0 mil (0.25 mm) thermally conductive adhesive transfer tape for mounting thermoelectric cooling modules, bonding heat sinks to microprocessors, bonding TAB-mounted IC and power transistor to PCB, and power transistor to heat sink.
- 3M™ Thermally Conductive Adhesive Transfer Tape TM-670SA 0.25 mm thermally conductive adhesive transfer tape with differential adhesion on liner side vs. non-liner side. UL94 V-2 rating. For heat management of electronic devices providing heat dissipation and bonding/joining.
- 3M™ Thermally Conductive Adhesive Transfer Tape TM-671SA 0.375 mm thermally conductive adhesive transfer tape with differential adhesion on liner side vs. non-liner side. UL94 V-2 rating. For heat management of electronic devices providing heat dissipation and bonding/joining.
- 3M™ Thermally Conductive Adhesive Transfer Tape TM-672SA 0.5 mm thermally conductive adhesive transfer tape with differential adhesion on liner side vs. non-liner side. UL94 V-2 rating. For heat management of electronic devices providing heat dissipation and bonding/joining.
- 3M™ Thermally Conductive Double Coated Adhesive Transfer Tape 8805KT 3M™ Thermally Conductive Double Coated Adhesive Transfer Tape 8805KT is a dual liner, 11 mil thick tape that uses polyimide film as a carrier. The polyimide film provides very high dielectric strength that may be required in certain applications.
3M™ Thermally Conductive Heat Spreading Tape 9876 3M™ Thermally Conductive Heat Spreading Tape 9876 is designed to provide excellent heat spreading performance on plane direction to reduce the skin temperature of devices.