Aluminum Nitride vs. PES
Aluminum nitride and PES belong to fundamentally different material chemistries. Aluminum nitride is a ceramic material, while PES is polymeric. Therefore, their performance will be even more dissimilar than would be suggested by the difference in properties. There are 15 material properties with values for both materials. Properties with values for just one material (21, in this case) are not shown. Please note that the two materials have significantly dissimilar densities. This means that additional care is required when interpreting the data, because some material properties are based on units of mass, while others are based on units of area or volume.
For each property being compared, the top bar is aluminum nitride and the bottom bar is PES.
Mechanical Properties
| Elastic (Young's, Tensile) Modulus, GPa | 330 | |
| 2.6 |
| Flexural Strength, MPa | 190 to 400 | |
| 130 |
Thermal Properties
| Maximum Temperature: Mechanical, °C | 1380 | |
| 200 |
| Specific Heat Capacity, J/kg-K | 780 | |
| 1100 |
| Thermal Conductivity, W/m-K | 80 to 190 | |
| 0.18 |
| Thermal Expansion, µm/m-K | 4.2 to 5.4 | |
| 53 |
Electrical Properties
| Dielectric Constant (Relative Permittivity) At 1 MHz | 6.9 to 28 | |
| 3.5 |
| Dielectric Strength (Breakdown Potential), kV/mm | 15 to 56 | |
| 16 |
| Electrical Dissipation At 1 Hz | 0.0019 | |
| 0.0010 |
| Electrical Dissipation At 1 MHz | 0.00020 to 0.0010 | |
| 0.0035 |
| Electrical Resistivity Order of Magnitude, 10x Ω-m | 10 to 12 | |
| 15 |
Otherwise Unclassified Properties
| Density, g/cm3 | 2.9 to 3.3 | |
| 1.4 |
Common Calculations
| Stiffness to Weight: Axial, points | 55 to 63 | |
| 1.1 |
| Stiffness to Weight: Bending, points | 69 to 80 | |
| 33 |
| Thermal Diffusivity, mm2/s | 31 to 74 | |
| 0.12 |