Electronics bonding solutions from 3M

3M™ Electronics Bonding Solutions empower you to design the best device you can imagine. Our broad range of bonding solutions includes thin double-sided tapes, adhesive transfer tapes, foam tapes and structural adhesives, offering market-proven solutions designed to address your toughest design challenges, so you can keep your device designs moving forward.

3M™ Thin Bonding Tapes

Thin bonding lets your design shine without bulky fasteners by using a virtually invisible industrial-strength bond to attach materials. Double coated or adhesive transfer tapes provide shear strength, conformability and high initial adhesion and have applications in FPC bonding, electronics, auto interiors, signage and graphics, sporting equipment and more.

  • Excellent adhesion to metals and High Surface Energy (HSE) plastics
  • High temp resistance (400˚F/204˚C short term)
  • Excellent shear, resists edge lifting
  • High resistance to solvents and humidity
  • Short term repositionability

3M™ VHB™ Tapes

Ultra-thin and uniquely protective, 3M’s high-strength, double-sided acrylic foam tapes creates both an exceptionally tight seal and a long-lasting bond that actually gets stronger over time.

  • Impact and vibration resistance
  • Energy absorption
  • Stress relaxation for greater design flexibility
  • Premium sealing – water resistance, contaminant resistance, chemical resistance
  • Reliability
  • Strong adhesion strength

3M™ Structural Adhesives

Obviously structural adhesives need to be strong – but that’s just the beginning. Depending on your specific process and needs you might be looking for shorter or longer open times, low-odor formulations, better environmental exposure performance, sealing properties, flexibility, adherence to specific substrates or any number of other features. 3M knows structural adhesives and the many ways they hold the world together.

  • Strong bonds
  • Thin bond lines possible
  • Less expensive and less waste
  • High chemical and temperature resistance

3M™ Bonding Solutions for consumer electronics devices

Smart speakers and displays

Smart speakers and smart displays are the beating heart of the modern, connected home. Because these devices often include curved surfaces with complex form factors and low-surface-energy substrates, they need flexible, versatile bonding solutions to help strike a balance of functionality and aesthetics.

3M tapes and liquid adhesives can bond a range of difficult surfaces and substrates in speakers and displays such as glass, metal, fabric, plastic and foam. They create a sturdy, permanent seal while delivering high impact resistance that meets industry drop test requirements.

Bond complex form factors in speaker mesh, display screens and more.

Smart speaker and smart display applications:

  • Lens bonding
  • Display bonding
  • Speaker foam bonding
  • Silicon foot bonding

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Smart security

Help secure indoor and outdoor security devices with electronics bonding solutions from 3M. They provide reliable shock absorption and protection from water and UV rays. Robust adhesion to rubber and TPU, high shear strength and pull force of over 50 N help provide a sense of security for homeowners.

Design flexibility to seamlessly blend smart security devices into the background while also delivering consistent, reliable performance.

Smart doorbell applications:

  • Enclosure bonding
  • Battery bonding
  • Speaker attachment bonding
  • Camera bonding
  • Button attachement and assembly
  • Device mounting

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Smartwatches

3M offers high-strength tapes to help stabilize smartwatch components during physical activity. Chemical resistant adhesives help bond metal to glass while sealing out water, sweat, sunscreen and skin oils.

Live life untethered.

Smartwatch applications:

  • Smartwatch dial bonding
  • Battery bonding
  • Lens bonding
  • FPC bonding
  • Fabric and wristband material bonding

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Hearables and TWS

Electronics bonding tapes and adhesives from 3M help provide shock absorption and chemical resistance to even the smallest components – such as those found in headphones and true wireless stereo (TWS) devices. Strong adhesion to plastics, silicone and other substrates expands material selection enhanced design freedom. Good jetting performance, fast curing and long stability facilitate processing and manufacturing.

Attach small and intricate components with flexible and versatile bonding solutions from 3M.

Hearables and TWS applications:

  • Earbud shell components bonding
  • Battery bonding
  • Speakermesh component bonding

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Extended reality (XR) devices

Extended reality devices make the impossible possible. With the press of a button, virtual reality/mixed reality headsets let us walk with dinosaurs or watch stars explode on the edge of the galaxy. Immersion is key – and nothing breaks that immersion like an interrupted connection or uncomfortable fit. 3M’s portfolio offering of trusted, easy-to-use ultra-thin tapes and liquid adhesives help you achieve your design goals across XR applications.

Helping you deliver visual appeal and wearability.

Extended Reality (XR) applications:

  • Display bonding
  • Battery bonding
  • FPC bonding
  • Mesh bonding
  • Magnet bonding
  • Controller assembly and back cover bonding

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Smartphones

The next big idea in consumer electronics is right around the corner – find which 3M electronics bonding solution can help you round it. From flexible and foldable OLED display bonding to enclosure and FPC bonding, 3M’s wide range of tapes and adhesives are ideal for many challenging device bonding applications.

Layers of innovation. One solution at a time.

Electronics bonding tapes and adhesives from 3M help address multiple design challenges across a range of smartphone design applications.

Smartphones applications:

  • Cover glass bonding
  • Display bonding
  • FPC bonding
  • Camera bonding
  • Back cover bonding
  • Antenna bonding
  • Logo bonding

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Tablets

With today’s endless appetite for information, connectivity and entertainment, users routinely shift their usage among multiple devices and platforms. Deliver a powerful, seamless experience into the most rugged, convenient, and transportable tablet designs through enhanced design flexibility and manufacturing agility.

Hold strong from the inside out.

Tablets applications:

  • Cover display bonding
  • Graphite bonding
  • FPC bonding
  • Camera lens bonding
  • Battery bonding
  • Camera frame bonding
  • Back cover bonding

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Laptops/Notebooks

Today, notebooks and PCs are the focus of work, school and play as well as a hub for mobile video communications. Next-gen notebooks will be as convenient as today’s smartphones, with lightweight ultra-portability, larger and high-resolution displays, thinner profiles, greater processing power, and of course, longer battery life. 3M has many proven tape, liquid adhesive solutions to mee the unique challenges of notebook/PC device designs.

Carry your laptop everywhere.

Laptops/Notebooks applications:

  • Cover bonding
  • Logo bonding
  • Display bonding
  • Camera module bonding
  • Battery bonding
  • Lens bonding
  • Rubber foot bonding
  • Chassis bonding

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Electronics adhesives and tapes from 3M possess broad capabilities for a wide variety of electronics device applications. Discover how 3M electronics bonding solutions can help meet the precise requirements of your unique designs.

3M™ Electronics Bonding Solutions to address the key Design Challenges

3M™ Electronics Bonding Solutions empower you to design the best device you can imagine. With a broad rang of bonding solutions that includes thin double-sided tapes, adhesive transfer tapes, foam tapes and structural adhesives, 3M offers market-proven solutions designed with your needs in mind, so you can keep your device designs moving forward.

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More 3M Solutions for Consumer Electronics

Help manage EMI and enhance signal integrity while saving space and cost with 3M™ Electrically Conductive Tapes. These “intelligent tapes” integrate powerful EMI shielding and grounding directly into your device and can be added late in the design process with virtually no electrical system redesign required. They can help control internal passive intermodulation (PIM) and boost signal-to-noise ratios in smartphones, tablets, XR/VR devices and more. 3M brings decades of expertise in consumer electronics and materials science to help you solve EMI problems today and into the future.

Control EMI in extended reality devices, smartwatches, hearables and more.

Applications:

  • Antenna shielding and grounding
  • Camera and PCB shielding
  • Shield can lid replacement
  • Bond line gaps
  • Component shielding and grounding
  • Display wrap groundin

Learn more about the Go-To 3M™ EMI/RFI Management Solutions

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Additional Resources

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3M™ Conformable Double Coated Tape

3M™ Ultra Clear Double Coated Tapes