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.

A method for fabricating a printed circuit, comprising: darkening a surface location of a conductive material with one or more ultrafast pulses of laser radiation and ablating the conductive material at the surface location with one or more longer duration pulses of laser radiation to produce traces or micro via patterns on the surface of a PCB. A hole for a blind micro via is produced by ablating the conductive material at the darkened surface location with one or more longer duration pulses of laser radiation and cleaning a second conductive material under the substrate with one or more further longer duration pulses of laser radiation.

A method for manufacturing a wiring substrate includes forming conductor pads on a surface of an insulating layer, positioning, on or in the insulating layer, an electronic component having electrode pads, forming a second insulating layer covering the surface of the insulating layer, conductor pads and electronic component, forming first via holes exposing the conductor pads, applying a first desmear treatment to the second insulating layer such that residues are removed from the first via holes, forming second via holes in the second insulating layer after the first desmear treatment such that the second via holes expose the electrode pads of the electronic component positioned on or in the insulating layer, applying a second desmear treatment to the second insulating layer such that residues are removed from the second via holes, forming first via conductors in the first via holes, and forming second via conductors in the second via holes.

Depicted embodiments are directed to an Application Specific Electronics Packaging (ASEP) system, which enables the manufacture of additional products using reel to reel (68a, 68b) manufacturing processes as opposed to the batch processes used to currently manufacture electronic products and MIDs. Through certain ASEP embodiments, it is possible to integrate connectors, sensors, LEDs, thermal management, antennas, RFID devices, microprocessors, memory, impedance control, and multi-layer functionality directly into a product.

The invention relates to a laser printing method that includes the following steps: (a) the provision of a receiver substrate (4); (b) the provision of a target substrate (5) comprising a transparent substrate (50) one surface of which has a coating has a coating (51) constituted of a solid metal film; (c) the localized irradiation of the said film (51) through the said transparent substrate (50) by means of a first laser (6) in order to reach the melting temperature of the metal in a target zone of the said film which is in liquid form; (d) the irradiation of the said liquid film through the said transparent substrate by means of a second laser on the said target zone defined in the step (c), in order to form a liquid jet in the said target zone and bring about the ejection thereof from the substrate in the form of molten metal; (e) the depositing on the receiver substrate of a molten metal drop over a defined receiving zone, with the said drop solidifying upon cooling.

A laser system includes a femtosecond laser; and a scanner configured to irradiate laser beams, which are outputted from the femtosecond laser on fabric, according to a graphene pattern. An electronic textile with graphene patterned on the fabric is manufactured by the laser beams. The graphene pattern and a structure of the fabric are differently determined depending on applications of the electronic textile.

A process method for laser removal of substrate solder mask by: providing a substrate with solder pads; covering the substrate and the solder pads with a solder mask, where the part of the solder mask facing the substrate is the shielding part and the part of the solder mask facing the solder pads is the clearing part; using a camera module to read the QR-code for plate production part number on the substrate; automatically importing the CAD/CAM data to the laser device, where the CAD/CAM data corresponds to the plate production part number; sequentially stripping the cleaning part through the laser beam according to the CAD/CAM data to make the solder mask form a hollow portion; taking a picture of the substrate and taking out the processed substrate picture; completing the substrate processing job if the processed substrate picture and the CAD/CAM data are the same.

A method for soldering an electronic component to a circuit board involves jetting liquefied solder. A laser beam melts a solid solder ball to produce a liquefied solder ball before the ball is jetted. The liquefied solder ball is jetted towards a through hole in the circuit board such that a portion of the liquefied solder ball flows into an annular gap between a pin and sides of the through hole. The pin is attached to the electronic component and passes through the through hole. As the liquefied solder ball is jetted towards the through hole, the laser beam is directed at the ball so as to keep it liquefied. How much of the solder ball remains outside the through hole after liquefied solder has flowed into the annular gap is determined. The filling degree of the annular gap is determined based on how much solder remains outside the hole.

The technology disclosed relates to accommodating embedded substrates during direct writing onto a printed circuit board and to other patterning problems that benefit from an extended depth of focus. In particular, it relates to multi-focus direct writing of a workpiece by the continuous or step-wise movement of the workpiece during the sequence of exposures having different focus planes. In one implementation, a multi-arm rotating direct writer is configured for interleaved writing focused on two or more focal planes that generally correspond to two or more surface heights of a radiation sensitive layer that overlays the uneven workpiece. Alternating arms can produce interleaved writing to the two or more focal planes.

A component carrier and a method for manufacturing a component carrier are described. The component carrier has a carrier body with a plurality of electrically conductive layer structures and/or electrically insulating layer structures. At least a part of the component carrier is formed as a three-dimensionally printed structure.