LED lighting for automotive

The world’s best-known OEMs consistently use our flexible printed circuit (FPC) technology to innovate across a wide spectrum of automotive LED (light-emitting diode) applications. Our FPCs enable higher efficiencies, longer life spans, greater design flexibility, and improved thermal management. And they do it with world-class reliability. Our FPC technology comes with decades of proven performance under the extreme mechanical stress, vibration, moisture, and temperature variations often found in automotive applications.

Shaping the future of LED design.

Today’s most advanced LED technology requires the design freedom that flexible circuitry provides. Our FPCs can bend, flex, and be shaped and contoured to conform to the most complex lighting systems imaginable. It’s technology that allows for thinner substrates and smaller features that result in high-density, reliable circuitry. FPCs are ideal for automotive applications where space is at a premium and components must be housed in small areas.

Our FPC technologies enable our OEM partners to innovate across LED design, performance, reliability, assembly, cost, and many other measurables.

We make cooler, longer-lasting LEDs possible.

We complement our FPC technology by fabricating our own custom materials. We offer substrates with high thermal conductivity, low thermal expansion coefficients, and excellent dimensional stability for improved LED performance in extreme conditions. We also create custom conductive adhesives like Novaclad® that are proven to help components run cooler, prolonging LED life.

With our thermal and materials expertise, we can help you develop the ideal combination of design and thermal performance while mitigating CTE (coefficient of thermal expansion) mismatch in high-power LED applications.
Simplify your supply chain. We offer U.S.-based manufacturing of our FPCs and custom materials at the scale and speed you need.
Our FPC technology enables application of aluminum Novaclad® to provide excellent heat mitigation in high-power LED applications.

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Human-machine interface (HMI) for automotive

By incorporating sensors and microcontrollers on FPCs, our OEM partners can create circuits that monitor and adjust vehicle temperature. See how this control can manifest via smart touch screen technology, enabled by Sheldahl.

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