A method of producing a functional vehicle component includes fixing a leather sheet over a surface of a vehicle component, applying a flexible electronic circuit to an A-surface of the leather sheet, and arranging a pigmented coating over the circuit. The pigmented coating inhibits or prevents the circuit from being visible through the pigmented coating. The method may include attaching an electronic element, such as a light source, a sensor, a wireless transmitter, or a switch, to the circuit. When the circuit includes a light source, the pigmented coating inhibits or prevents the light source from being visible through the pigmented coating, but light emitted by the light source is visible through the pigmented coating.

A capacitor may be configured with a dielectric laminate disposed on ordered or non-ordered structures. Materials for the dielectric laminate have high dielectric constant and reduce leakage current to increase breakdown voltage of the device. These materials may include titanium dioxide (TiO.sub.2) and silicon dioxide (SiO.sub.2). In one implementation, the capacitor may reside on a substrate. The capacitor may have structure (e.g., nano-tubes, nano-holes, etc;) disposed on the substrate having a surface area greater than the surface area of the substrate and a laminate conformally coating the structure, the laminate comprising a first layer and a second layer with materials that configure the capacitor with an energy density of at least 60 Wh/Kg.

A multilayer wiring substrate and a module having the multilayer wiring substrate, wherein the multilayer wiring substrate has a capacitor with a capacitance value smaller than that of the conventional one. The substrate includes a core substrate and capacitors installed therein. At least one of the capacitors is a first capacitor which includes a lower electrode, a dielectric layer, and an upper electrode. The lower electrode is located closer to the core substrate than the dielectric layer and the upper electrode are. The upper electrode is located farther away from the core substrate than the dielectric layer and the lower electrode are. The lower electrode is entirely disposed on the core substrate. The upper electrode has a first portion and a second portion. The first portion overlaps the dielectric layer and the lower electrode to serve as the first capacitor. The second portion extends from the first portion.

A coupler includes: a first layer including a first conductive flat plate; a second layer including a signal transmission line electrically connected to the first conductive flat plate, the second layer including a first line port configured to input a signal output from a wireless communication circuit, and a second line port electrically connected to an antenna; a third layer electrically connected to the first conductive flat plate and including a first conductive pattern electrically connected to the signal transmission line; and a capacitor electrically connected to the first conductive flat plate.

Pastes are disclosed that are configured to coat a passage of a substrate. When the paste is sintered, the paste becomes electrically conductive so as to transmit electrical signals from a first end of the passage to a second end of the passage that is opposite the first end of the passage. The metallized paste contains a lead-free glass frit, and has a coefficient of thermal expansion sufficiently matched to the substrate so as to avoid cracking of the sintered paste, the substrate, or both, during sintering.

A chip tampering detector is disclosed. The chip tampering detector includes a plurality of resistor-capacitor circuits. Each resistor-capacitor circuit includes a capacitor having a planar area that covers a sensitive area of an integrated circuit of the chip. The resistor-capacitor circuits can be probed with an input signal to generate output signals. The output signals can be measured to determine respective time-constants resistor-capacitor circuits. Tampering with a chip can alter the capacitance of a capacitor covering a sensitive area. Accordingly, a significant change of a time-constant of one or more of the resistor-capacitor circuits can be used to detect chip tampering.

An electronic component includes a first electronic component and a second electronic component that is stacked on the first electronic component. A second electrode layer of the first electronic component includes a plurality of divided electrode layers, and a pair of electrodes of the second electronic component are electrically connected to different electrode layers included in the plurality of electrode layers of the second electrode layer, and a first electrode layer of the first electronic component is divided into a plurality of electrode layers to correspond to the electrode layers which are included in the second electrode layer and which are electrically connected to the pair of electrodes of the second electronic component.

A circuit board with via capacitor structure is introduced herein, including a base, a deposition layer, disposed on the base, having at least a via in the deposition layer, at least a thin film capacitor, each thin film capacitor disposed in each via, each thin film capacitor having a body, a second terminal, and a first terminal, the second terminal and the first terminal located on two opposite sides of the body; at least a first electrode, each first electrode electrically connected to the first terminal of each thin film capacitor; and at least a second electrode, each second electrode electrically connected to the second terminal of each thin film capacitor.

A flexible cable includes an elongated flexible substrate including first and second surfaces on opposite sides thereof, a first capacitor electrode provided on the first surface side of the flexible substrate, the first capacitor electrode extending from a first end of the flexible substrate toward a second end of the flexible substrate, a second capacitor electrode provided on the second surface side of the flexible substrate, the second capacitor electrode extending from the second end of the flexible substrate toward the first end of the flexible substrate, a first connection portion provided at an end of the first capacitor electrode located at the first end of the flexible substrate, and a second connection portion provided at an end of the second capacitor electrode located at the second end of the flexible substrate.

An interposer for a processor includes: an electrically insulating material having a first main side and a second main side opposite the first main side; an electrical interface for a processor substrate at the first main side of the electrically insulating material; and a power device module embedded in the electrically insulating material and configured to convert a voltage provided at the second main side of the electrically insulating material to a lower voltage. The power device module has at least one contact configured to receive the voltage provided at the second main side of the electrically insulating material. Distribution circuitry embedded in the electrically insulating material is configured to carry the lower voltage provided by the power device module to the first main side of the electrically insulating material.