Disclosed is a copper alloy article including: a substrate 10 made of a copper alloy; a polyester-based resin body 40; and a compound layer 20 for bonding the substrate 10 and the polyester-based resin body 40, wherein the compound layer 20 contains; a compound having a nitrogen-containing functional group and a silanol group, and an alkane type amine-based silane coupling agent.

A metal-clad laminate includes: a cured insulating layer including a polyphenylene ether compound; a metal layer joined with the insulating layer; and an intermediate layer interposed between the insulating layer and the metal layer, the intermediate layer including a silane compound. The metal layer has a junction surface that is joined with the insulating layer via the intermediate layer. The junction surface has a ten-point average roughness Rz ranging from 0.5 m to 4 m inclusive.

A metal-clad laminated board includes an insulating layer and a metal layer, in which the insulating layer includes a cured product of a resin composition containing a modified polyphenylene ether compound terminally modified with a substituent having an unsaturated double bond; and a crosslinkable curing agent having an unsaturated double bond in the molecule, and containing 40 to 250 parts by mass of silica particles with respect to 100 parts by mass in total of the modified polyphenylene ether compound and the crosslinkable curing agent, the resin composition contains 0.2 to 5 parts by mass of a first silane coupling agent having an unsaturated double bond in the molecule with respect to 100 parts by mass of the silica particles, and a contact surface of the metal layer in contact with the insulating layer is surface-treated with a second silane coupling agent having an amino group in the molecule.

According to one aspect of the present invention, a substrate for a printed circuit board includes: an insulating base film; and a metal layer that covers an entirety or a part of one or both surfaces of the base film, wherein the metal layer includes a sintered body layer of copper nanoparticles, and wherein the sintered body layer includes nitrogen atoms by greater than or equal to 0.5 atomic % and less than or equal to 5.0 atomic %.

A laminate comprising a substrate; an adhesive layer formed on at least one surface of both surfaces of the substrate so as to be in direct contact with the substrate; and a plating layer formed on a surface of the adhesive layer opposite to the substrate, wherein the adhesive layer comprises a plating catalyst containing a precious metal, and a silane coupling agent.

A present invention provides a method for manufacturing a printed wiring board having excellent plating adhesion to a resin substrate having low surface roughness such as having surface roughness Ra of 0.2 m or less, having excellent treating solution stability, and having high penetrability into the resin substrate. The method for manufacturing a resin substrate includes a step 1A or a step 1B; and a step 2 after the step 1A or the step 1B; and the steps are conducted before conducting electroless plating.

Provided are a prepreg including two or more fiber substrate layers and one or more resin composition layers, in which at least one of the one or more resin composition layers has a fiber substrate layer on each of both surfaces thereof, a printed circuit board using the prepreg and a method of producing the printed circuit board, and a semiconductor package.

A multilayer printed wiring board and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. A multilayer printed wiring board of the present embodiment includes: a core base material formed by laminating a first wiring layer and a first insulating layer in this order on an insulating substrate; and a built-up layer formed by laminating a second wiring layer and a second insulating layer in this order on the core base material. A primer layer is formed between the second wiring layer and the first insulating layer, the second wiring layer has a lower surface at least part of which is in contact with the primer layer, and the second wiring layer has an upper surface and a side surface on both of which a tin-plated layer and a silane coupling layer are formed in this order.

A method of manufacturing a copper foil for a high frequency circuit includes sequentially forming a fine roughness copper nodule layer on a surface of an electroplated copper layer, the fine roughness copper nodule layer being consisted essentially of copper particles or copper alloy particles with a particle size of 100 nm to 200 nm; then, performing electroplating with a ZnNi co-electroplating formula for 3 seconds or more to form a ZnNi plating layer on the fine roughness copper nodule layer, the ZnNi plating layer including 90-150 g/dm.sup.2 of zinc and 75-120 g/dm.sup.2 of nickel; forming a rust-proof layer on the ZnNi plating layer, the rust-proof layer including 20-40 g/dm.sup.2 of chromium; and next, forming a hydrophobic layer on the rust-proof layer, the hydrophobic layer having a water contact angle of 80 to 150 degrees.

Surface-treated copper foils that exhibit a material volume (Vm) less than 1.90 m.sup.3/m.sup.2. Where the surface-treated copper foil is treated on the drum side and includes a treatment layer comprising a nodule layer. Such surface-treated copper foils can be used as a conductive material having low transmission loss, for example in circuit boards.