Hi, all,
So I've designed this front end for a surface voltage tool for testing silicon wafers.
Since the input is uber-high-Z, it needs to keep the stray capacitance very low and very stable, so it has a fancy bootstrapped input stage and a bootstrapped shield connected to a bootstrapped reference plane.
I'd like very much to reduce the board capacitance. Naturally I thought of using a fluorocarbon circuit board material, but no, the really low epsilon ones all seem to be PTFE, which has a glass transition at room temperature, and so is horribly unstable.
Any favourite low-epsilon materials with high surface resistance and good stability near room temperature, that won't cost the earth or give the board house conniptions?
Thanks
Phil Hobbs