Electronics assemblies and methods of manufacturing electronics assemblies having improved thermal performance. One example of these electronics assemblies includes a printed circuit board (PCB), an integrated circuit package mounted to the PCB, the integrated circuit packing having a heat generating component, and a heat spreader soldered to the PCB such that the heat spreader is thermally coupled to the heat generating component of the integrated circuit package to dissipate heat generated by the heat generating component.

A soft neural interface connector apparatus includes a PCB having a two-dimensional array of solder balls, a transparent top board, a cushioning layer on one side of the transparent top board, and a soft neural interface including a flexible and/or stretchable microelectrode array (MEA) through which neural signals are obtained or delivered. The MEA includes a two-dimensional array of contact pads corresponding to the array of solder balls. The PCB, the transparent top board, the cushioning layer, and the MEA are stacked together such that the MEA is between the cushioning layer and the PCB, and the contact pads are aligned with and in electrical contact with associated solder balls. A magnetic connector system having at least one magnetic connector component on the transparent top board is magnetically connected with at least one magnetic connector component on the PCB to press the contact pads and associated solder balls together.

Disclosed is a stretchable substrate including: a via configured to provide an electrical connection between one surface and the other surface of the stretchable substrate; and a buffer shell positioned between the via and the stretchable substrate and having a Young's modulus value that is greater than a Young's modulus value of the stretchable substrate and smaller than a Young's modulus value of the via.

An electric device which includes a first component carrier structure with a first magnet structure and a first connection structure, and a second component carrier structure with a second magnet structure and a second connection structure. The first magnet structure and the second magnet structure are configured such that upon attaching the first component carrier structure and the second component carrier structure to one another the first connection structure is connected to the second connection structure, holding the first component carrier structure and the second component carrier structure together by an attracting magnetic force between the first magnet structure and the second magnet structure.

The present invention provides a method for manufacturing a backlight source. The method for manufacturing a backlight source according to the present invention forms a plurality of tin soldering pattern groups on a substrate. Each tin soldering pattern group includes tin soldering patterns spaced from one another, and the tin soldering patterns are in a closed ring shape. The Mini-LEDs are disposed on the tin soldering pattern groups respectively. The substrate is placed in the space having a varying magnetic field. The circuit of the tin soldering patterns in the tin soldering pattern groups generates the induced current for rapid heating and melting, to solder the Mini-LEDs on the substrate. The soldering speed is improved, the process efficiency is high, the process cost is low, and the light effect of the backlight source is effectively ensured.

Electronics assemblies and methods of manufacturing electronics assemblies having improved thermal performance. One example of these electronics assemblies includes a printed circuit board (PCB), an integrated circuit package mounted to the PCB, the integrated circuit packing having a heat generating component, and a heat spreader soldered to the PCB such that the heat spreader is thermally coupled to the heat generating component of the integrated circuit package to dissipate heat generated by the heat generating component.

A method for forming a flexible substrate having a via, according to the present embodiment, comprises the steps of: (a) arranging a mixture of conductive particles moving by means of a magnetic field, when a curable resin and the magnetic field are provided; (b) forming a material layer being cured and having flexibility; (c) arranging the conductive particles by providing a magnetic field; and (d) curing the curable resin and the material layer.

A manufacturing method of the light-emitting diode package structure is provided. A carrier is formed. The carrier comprises a first build-up circuit. At least one self-assembled material layer is formed on the first build-up circuit. A first solder mask layer is formed on the first build-up circuit. The first solder mask layer has at least one opening to expose a portion of the at least one self-assembled material layer. At least one light-emitting diode is disposed on the first build-up circuit. The at least one light-emitting diode has a self-assembled pattern, and the at least one light-emitting diode is self-assembled into the at least one opening of the first solder mask layer through a force between the self-assembled pattern and the at least one self-assembled material layer.

Applying a solderable surface to conductive ink may include partially curing a conductive ink trace; applying, to the partially cured conductive ink trace, a conductive paste comprising conductive particles; and curing the partially cured conductive ink trace and the conductive paste.

An electronic system for identifying an article can include a printed memory having a plurality of contact pads electrically coupled to a plurality of landing pads positioned on a first side of a printed circuit board (PCB) substrate. The plurality of landing pads can be electrically coupled to a plurality of endless, concentric contact lines positioned on a second side of the PCB substrate through a plurality of vias that extend through a thickness of the PCB substrate and a plurality of traces that electrically couple the plurality of vias with the plurality of landing pads. To perform a memory operation on the printed memory, contact probes of a reader are physically and electrically contacted with the plurality of concentric contact lines. In some implementations, the memory operation can be performed on the printed memory irrespective of a rotational orientation of the printed memory relative to the reader.