The disclosure provides for methods of making electrically conductive apparatus, such as circuit boards. The methods include 3D-printing a ceramic material into a ceramic substrate that includes a void. A conductive material is infused into the void. The conductive materiel forms electrically conductive connections within the apparatus. Also disclosed are apparatus formed by the methods.

Circuit board includes conductive plate, core dielectric layer, metallization layer, first build-up stack, second build-up stack. Conductive plate has channels extending from top surface to bottom surface. Core dielectric layer extends on covering top surface and side surfaces of conductive plate. Metallization layer extends on core dielectric layer and within channels of conductive plate. Core dielectric layer insulates metallization layer from conductive plate. First build-up stack is disposed on top surface of conductive plate and includes conductive layers alternately stacked with dielectric layers. Conductive layers electrically connect to metallization layer. Second build-up stack is disposed on bottom surface of conductive plate. Second build-up stack includes bottommost dielectric layer and bottommost conductive layer. Bottommost dielectric layer covers bottom surface of conductive plate. Bottommost conductive layer is disposed on bottommost dielectric layer and electrically connects to metallization layer. First build-up stack includes more conductive and dielectric layers than second build-up stack.

In various embodiments, a chip card module is provided. The chip card module includes a chip card module contact array having six contact pads that are arranged in two rows having three contact pads each in accordance with ISO 7816, and three additional contact pads that are arranged between the two rows. Each additional contact pad is electrically conductively connected to a respective associated contact pad from a row from the two rows.

Disclosed are a circuit board and a method of manufacturing the same. The circuit board includes an insulating part, a heat-transfer body disposed in the insulating part, the heat-transfer body including a thermally conductive material formed in a column shape, and a function hole penetrating the heat-transfer body between a top surface and a bottom surface of the heat-transfer body.

A wiring substrate for improving connection reliability with an electronic component, a component embedded substrate that incorporates an embedded component into the wiring substrate, and a package structure including an electronic component mounted on the wiring substrate or the component embedded substrate. The wiring substrate includes a metal plate, and a wiring layer including a plurality of insulating layers and a conductive layer arranged on the plurality of insulating layers arranged on at least one principal surface of the metal plate. The plurality of insulating layers includes a first insulating layer to contact the principal surface of the metal plate and has a larger thermal expansion rate in the planar direction than the metal plate and a second insulating layer which is laminated on the first insulating layer to contact the first insulating layer and has smaller thermal expansion rate in the planar direction than the metal plate.

Semiconductor assemblies including thermal layers and associated systems and methods are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, the semiconductor assemblies comprise one or more semiconductor devices over a substrate. The substrate includes a thermal layer configured to transfer thermal energy across the substrate. The thermal energy is transferred from the semiconductor device to the graphene layer using one or more thermal connectors.

A method of manufacturing a component carrier is described. The method includes forming a stack having at least one electrically conductive layer structure and/or at least one electrically insulating layer structure, and cutting out the component carrier from the stack along a closed circumferential laser cutting trajectory by a pulsed laser beam having a pulse length of less than 1 ns.

A dielectric tape suitable for use in an electronic device is provided. A dielectric slip composition comprises an organic vehicle and a dielectric glass composition comprising at least about 20 wt % and no more than about 50 wt % silicon dioxide, based upon 100% total weight of the glass composition, at least about 10 wt % and no more than about 50 wt % alkali metal oxides, based upon 100% total weight of the glass composition, and at least about 1 wt % and no more than about 10 wt % of at least one transition metal oxide. A method of forming an electronic device is also provided. The method includes the steps of applying at least one dielectric tape to at least one non-planar surface of a substrate, and subjecting the at least one dielectric tape to one or more thermal treatment steps to form a dielectric layer.

In a suspension board, a ground layer and a first insulating layer are formed on a support substrate. The ground layer has electric conductivity higher than that of the support substrate. A power wiring trace is formed on the first insulating layer. A second insulating layer is formed on the support substrate to cover the ground layer and the first insulating layer. A write wiring trace is formed on the second insulating layer to at least partially overlap with the ground layer. A distance between the ground layer and the write wiring trace in a stacking direction of the support substrate, the first insulating layer and the second insulating layer is set larger than a distance between the power wiring trace and the write wiring trace in the stacking direction.

A printed circuit board has a core made of an aluminum material; a bonding member positioned on opposite surfaces of the core; a base layer bonded to the opposite surface of the core through the bonding member; a receiving hole extending through the core, the bonding member, and the base layer; a zinc substitution layer positioned on a surface of the base layer and a portion of the base layer exposed on an inner surface of the receiving hole; and a plating layer positioned on the zinc substitution layer, and having a circuit pattern.