A method for forming a board assembly includes identifying a location of a hot-spot on a semiconductor die and cutting an opening in a circuit board corresponding to the location of the identified hot-spot. A Chemical Vapor Deposition Diamond (CVDD) window is inserted into the opening. A layer of thermally conductive paste is applied over the CVDD window. The semiconductor die is placed over the layer of thermally conductive paste such that the CVDD window underlies the hot-spot and such that a surface of the semiconductor die is in direct contact with the layer of thermally conductive paste.

In a method for making a flexible material, a sheet of graphene oxide-composite paper is subjected to an environment having a relative humidity above a predetermined threshold for a predetermined amount of time. At least one expansion cut is cut in the sheet of graphene oxide-composite paper. A flexible conductive material includes a sheet of graphene oxide-composite paper defining at least one cut passing therethrough and formed it a kirigami structure. A region of the sheet of graphene oxide-composite paper includes reduced graphene oxide.

A metal-clad laminate is provided. The metal-clad laminate includes: a dielectric layer, which has a first reinforcing material and a dielectric material formed on the surface of the first reinforcing material, wherein the dielectric material includes 60 wt % to 80 wt % of a first fluoropolymer and 20 wt % to 40 wt % of a first filler; an adhesive layer, which is disposed on at least one side of the dielectric layer and includes an adhesive material, wherein the adhesive material has 60 wt % to 70 wt % of a second fluoropolymer and 30 wt % to 40 wt % of a second filler; and a metal foil, which is disposed on the other side of the adhesive layer that is opposite to the dielectric layer, wherein the melting point of the second fluoropolymer is lower than the melting point of the first fluoropolymer.

A package substrate structure includes a substrate, a metal base layer, a build-up film, a bonding layer, and a wiring unit. The metal base layer is disposed on the substrate. The build-up film is disposed on the metal base layer and is formed with trenches to expose the metal base layer. The build-up film includes an insulating material. The bonding layer is disposed on the build-up film and includes a graphene-metal composite. The graphene-metal composite includes a metal matrix, and a plurality of graphene nanostructures dispersed in the metal matrix and arranged among lattices of the metal matrix. The graphene nanostructures form covalent bonds with each other. The wiring unit is bonded to the build-up film through the bonding layer and fills the trenches so as to be electrically connected to the metal base layer. The wiring unit is formed with a wiring pattern on the build-up film.

A solder composition for use in solder joints of printed circuit boards (PCBs), including a compound layer comprising an alloy of bismuth and tin; and a graphene coating positioned on the compound layer.

A circuit board with improved heat dissipation function and a method for manufacturing the circuit board are provided. The circuit board includes a heat dissipation substrate, an insulating layer on the heat dissipation substrate, an electronic component, a base layer on the insulating layer, and a circuit layer on the base layer. The heat dissipation substrate includes a phase change structure and a heat conductive layer wrapping the phase change structure. The heat dissipation substrate defines a first through hole. The insulating layer defines a groove for receiving the electronic component. A second through hole is defined in the circuit layer, the base layer, and the insulating layer. A bottom of the second through hole corresponds to the heat conductive layer. A heat conductive portion is disposed in the second through hole.

A circuit board arrangement includes a circuit board having two conductive material structures and a separating layer, where the structures are placed on opposite sides of the layer and the layer comprises includes a first graphene island stretching between a first area of a first of the structures and a second area of a second of the structures, which first graphene island is controllable to electrically interconnect the two areas or separate the two areas from each other. A method of communicating between a first and a second circuit via the structures comprises includes controlling the first graphene island to electrically interconnect the first and the second area and the first circuit communicating with the second circuit after the interconnection.

The present invention provides methods for fabricating graphene workpieces. The present invention also provides for products produced by the methods of the present invention and for apparatuses used to perform the methods of the present invention.

A transparent conductive film (10) that has a substrate (14) having a surface (14a, 14b), a nanowire layer (12, 12a) over one or more portions of the surface (14a, 14b) of the substrate (14), and a conductive layer (16, 16a) on the portions comprising the nanowire layer (12, 12a), the conductive layer (16, 16a) comprising carbon nanotubes (CNT) and a binder.

A method of producing a conductive path on a substrate including depositing on the substrate a layer of material having a thickness in the range of 0.1 to 5 microns, including metal particles having a diameter in the range of 10 to 100 nanometers, employing a patterning laser beam to selectably sinter regions of the layer of material, thereby causing the metal particles to together define a conductor at sintered regions and employing an ablating laser beam, below a threshold at which the sintered regions would be ablated, to ablate portions of the layer of material other than at the sintered regions.