A package includes a conductive pad, with a plurality of openings penetrating through the conductive pad. A dielectric layer encircles the conductive pad. The dielectric layer has portions filling the plurality of openings. An Under-Bump Metallurgy (UBM) includes a via portion extending into the dielectric layer to contact the conductive pad. A solder region is overlying and contacting the UBM. An integrated passive device is bonded to the UBM through the solder region.

A circuit board structure includes a circuit board and an adhesive layer. The circuit board has a first board surface and an opposite second board surface, and the first board surface defines a predetermined portion. The circuit board has a conductive circuit disposed on the first board surface and at least partially arranged on the predetermined portion. The adhesive layer is seamlessly formed on the predetermined portion of the first board surface of the circuit board, and the conductive circuit arranged on the predetermined portion is seamlessly covered by the adhesive layer. A surface of the adhesive layer arranged away from the circuit board is a planar bonding surface.

A wiring substrate includes a core substrate, and a build-up layer including conductor layers and insulating layers alternately laminated on the substrate and via conductors formed in the insulating layers, each insulating layer having a coating layer and a support layer stacked on the coating layer such that the support layer has surface on which a conductor layer is laminated and the coating layer is covering a conductor layer, each via conductor connecting two conductor layers through an insulating layer. The coating layer has a thickness greater than that of the support layer and includes inorganic filler at content rate of 65 to 85% by mass, and the support layer includes inorganic filler at different content rate such that thermal expansion coefficient of the coating layer is smaller than that of the support layer and the coefficients of the coating and support layers have difference of 30 ppm/° C. or less.

A circuit board includes a first dielectric material, a second dielectric material, a third dielectric material, a first external circuit layer, a second external circuit layer, multiple conductive structures, and a conductive via structure. Dielectric constants of the first, the second and the third dielectric materials are different. The first and the second external circuit layers are respectively disposed on the first and the third dielectric materials. The conductive via structure at least penetrates the first and the second dielectric materials and is electrically connected to the first and the second external circuit layers to define a signal path. The conductive structures are electrically connected to each other and surround the first, the second and the third dielectric materials. The conductive structures are electrically connected to the first and the second external circuit layers to define a ground path surrounding the signal path.

A device that includes a flexible printed circuit board (PCB), a package coupled to the flexible PCB, a first antenna device coupled to the flexible PCB, and a second antenna device coupled to the flexible PCB. The first antenna device is configured to transmit and receive a first signal having a first frequency. The second antenna device is configured to transmit and receive a second signal having a second frequency. The first antenna device may be coupled to a second surface of the flexible PCB, and the second antenna device is coupled to the second surface of the flexible PCB. The first antenna device may be coupled to a second surface of the flexible PCB, and the second antenna device is coupled to a first surface of the flexible PCB.

A circuit board includes a first dielectric material, a second dielectric material, a third dielectric material, a first external circuit layer, a second external circuit layer, multiple conductive structures, and a conductive via structure. Dielectric constants of the first, the second and the third dielectric materials are different. The first and the second external circuit layers are respectively disposed on the first and the third dielectric materials. The conductive via structure at least penetrates the first and the second dielectric materials and is electrically connected to the first and the second external circuit layers to define a signal path. The conductive structures are electrically connected to each other and surround the first, the second and the third dielectric materials. The conductive structures are electrically connected to the first and the second external circuit layers to define a ground path surrounding the signal path.

A substrate equipped with an antenna of the present disclosure includes a circuit substrate and an antenna element. When viewed from a thickness direction, an area of one principal surface of the circuit substrate is larger than that of another principal surface thereof, and each of the one principal surface and the other principal surface of the circuit substrate is formed in a rectangular shape. When a maximum width between a first outer periphery of the other principal surface projected onto the one principal surface and a first outer periphery of the one principal surface is defined as W.sub.1, the antenna element is mounted in at least part of a region on the one principal surface of the circuit substrate, in which the region has the width W.sub.1 from the second outer periphery of the other principal surface projected onto the one principal surface toward the inner side.

The invention, which relates to the technical field of circuit boards, specifically discloses a method for manufacturing an embedded circuit board, an embedded circuit board, and an application thereof. The method includes: providing a substrate, wherein an electronic component is embedded in the substrate, a pad is arranged on a side surface of the electronic component, and an end surface of the pad is flush with a same side surface of the substrate; forming a metallic layer on a side surface of the substrate adjacent to the pad by sputtering, evaporation, electroplating or chemical vapor deposition; and patterning the metallic layer to obtain a circuit board covered with the metallic layer on the pad, wherein the metallic layer on the pad protrudes beyond the same side surface of the substrate.

A device that includes a flexible printed circuit board (PCB), a package coupled to the flexible PCB, a first antenna device coupled to the flexible PCB, and a second antenna device coupled to the flexible PCB. The first antenna device is configured to transmit and receive a first signal having a first frequency. The second antenna device is configured to transmit and receive a second signal having a second frequency. The first antenna device may be coupled to a second surface of the flexible PCB, and the second antenna device is coupled to the second surface of the flexible PCB. The first antenna device may be coupled to a second surface of the flexible PCB, and the second antenna device is coupled to a first surface of the flexible PCB.

An electronic device and methods for fabricating the same are disclosed herein that utilize a dam formed on a printed circuit board (PCB) that is positioned to substantially prevent edge bond material, utilized to secure a chip package to the PCB, from interfacing with the solder balls transmitting signals between the PCB and chip package.