electrical
connectors
and contacts

Yes. Tecan manufactures precision etched electrical connectors and contacts by photochemical etching, with clean, burr-free contact surfaces for reliable electrical performance in electronics and precision devices.

Etched contacts and connectors provide the electrical connection points between components in electronic assemblies, including spring contacts, contact arrays, terminals and fine-pitch connector parts.

Photochemical etching produces contacts with clean, burr-free edges and no mechanical stress or heat-affected zone, so contact surfaces stay flat and consistent for dependable electrical performance. Because it uses digital tooling, contact geometries can be iterated quickly during development and scaled to volume.

Contacts and connectors are typically etched from copper and copper alloys, beryllium copper, brass and nickel alloys for good conductivity and spring properties. Tecan’s in-house plating and finishing can add gold, silver, electroless nickel and tin to improve conductivity and durability, along with further finishes including Tarniban, chemi-black, and sulphuric clear, coloured (black, blue and red) and hard sulphuric anodising.

Yes. Tecan offers in-house plating, including gold, silver, nickel and tin finishes, to improve conductivity, solderability and wear resistance on contacts and connectors.

Tecan etches contacts and connectors to a minimum feature size of approximately 20µm, holding a typical tolerance of ±10% of material thickness above 0.15mm, and ±15µm minimum below 0.15mm, on material from 25µm to 2mm thick.

Yes. Because photochemical etching uses digital tooling, Tecan produces custom contact and connector designs to your specification, with prototypes made directly from drawings and the same design scaled to volume without new tooling.

Send your drawings, material, quantity and tolerances via the Request a Quote page and Tecan will provide a quotation.