A device may include a flexible substrate. The device may further include a flexible integrated circuit within the flexible substrate, the integrated circuit having at least one input electrode positioned on a surface of the flexible substrate. The device may also include an aerosol jet printed conductive ink layer disposed on the surface of the flexible substrate, the aerosol-jet printed conductive ink layer having a pattern that includes a first set of fingers interdigitated with a second set of fingers, the aerosol jet printed conductive ink layer in contact with the at least one input electrode.

Described are component carriers including a stepped cavity into which a stepped component assembly is embedded. The component carriers have (a) fully cured electrically insulating material originating from at least one electrically insulating layer structure of the component carrier and circumferentially surrounding the stepped component assembly and/or (b) an undercut in a transition region between a narrow recess and a wide recess of the stepped cavity. Further described are methods for manufacturing such component carriers.

An embedded component structure including a circuit board, an electronic component, a dielectric layer and a connection circuit layer and a manufacturing method thereof is provided. The circuit board has a through hole and includes a core layer, a first circuit layer, and a second circuit layer. The first circuit layer and the second circuit layer are disposed on the core layer. The through hole penetrates the first circuit layer and the core layer. The electronic component including a plurality of connection pads is disposed within the through hole where the dielectric layer is filled in. The Young's modulus of the core layer is greater than the Young's modulus of the dielectric layer. The connection circuit layer covers and contacts a first electrical connection surface of the first circuit layer and at least one of a second electrical connection surface of each of the connection pads. A manufacturing method of an embedded component structure is also provided.

Disclosed are highly scalable fabrication methods for producing electronic circuits, devices, and systems. In one aspect, a fabrication method includes attaching an electronic component at a location on a substrate including a flexible and electrically insulative material; forming a template to encase the electronic component by depositing a material in a phase to conform on the surfaces of the electronic component and the substrate, and causing the material to change to solid form; and producing a circuit or electronic device by forming openings in the substrate to expose conductive portions of the electronic component, creating electrical interconnections coupled to at least some of the conductive portions in a selected arrangement on the substrate, and depositing a layer of an electrically insulative and flexible material over the electrical interconnections on the substrate to form a flexible base of the circuit, in which the produced circuit or electronic device is encased.

The disclosure relates to systems, methods and compositions for direct printing of printed circuit boards with embedded integrated chips. Specifically, the disclosure relates to systems methods and compositions for the direct, top-down inkjet printing of printed circuit board with embedded chip and/or chip packages using a combination of print heads with conductive and dielectric ink compositions, creating predetermined dedicated compartments for locating the chips and/or chip packages and covering these with an encapsulating layer while maintaining interconnectedness among the embedded chips. Placing of the chips can be done automatically using robotic arms.

A component carrier including an electrically insulating core, at least one electronic component embedded in the core, and a coupling structure with at least one electrically conductive through-connection extending at least partially therethrough and having a component contacting end and a wiring contacting end. The electronic component directly contacts the component contacting end. The wiring contacting end is directly electrically contacted to the wiring structure. The exterior surface portion of the coupling structure has homogeneous ablation properties and surface recesses filled with an electrically conductive wiring structure. A method includes embedding an electronic component in an electrically insulating core, providing a coupling structure with a conductive connection having a component end and a wiring end, connecting the electronic component directly to the component end, providing a surface portion of the coupling structure with homogeneous ablation properties, patterning the surface portion with recesses and filling the recesses with a wiring structure such that the wiring end is contacted directly.

A packaged device may include electrical components such as integrated circuits that are mounted to a substrate such as a printed circuit substrate. Plastic may be molded to the printed circuit substrate over the integrated circuits. The molded plastic may include one or more shots of plastic and may include laser-sensitizable plastic material. Antenna structures may be supported by molded plastic such as molded plastic in a packaged device. The antenna structures may be formed from metal foil, flexible printed circuit substrate material with metal antenna traces, and metal traces that are formed on exposed surfaces of the plastic. The metal traces may be electroplated metal traces that are formed on regions of a laser-sensitizable plastic material that have been exposed to laser light. A package may have a protrusion that supports an antenna structure.

An electronic device includes electronic components, a molded resin element wherein the electronic components are embedded and secured, and a heat transfer layer; the heat transfer layer has a higher thermal conductivity than the molded resin element. The heat transfer layer is in contact with portions of the electronic components other than an electrode pad and a terminal. This prevents increases in the cost of manufacturing the electronic device and the allows the electronic device to be thinner.

An inductor component includes a core base material, a magnetic body in the core, a first conductor pattern formed on primary surface of the core, a second conductor pattern formed on secondary surface of the core, and through-hole conductors formed in through holes through the core such that the conductors are connecting the first and second patterns. The first pattern, second pattern and conductors are positioned to form an inductor such that the magnetic body is positioned on inner side of the inductor, each conductor has a diameter k1, each pattern has conductor thickness in range of 50 m to 200 m and has line patterns each having width w1 and separated by line separation distance w2, and a ratio of cross-sectional area of each line pattern to cross-sectional area of each conductor along the diameter k1 in direction of the width w1 is in range of 0.8 to 2.0.

A manufacturing method of an embedded component package structure includes the following steps: providing a carrier and forming a semi-cured first dielectric layer on the carrier, the semi-cured first dielectric layer having a first surface; providing a component on the semi-cured first dielectric layer, and respectively providing heat energies from a top and a bottom of the component to cure the semi-cured first dielectric layer; forming a second dielectric layer on the first dielectric layer to cover the component; and forming a patterned circuit layer on the second dielectric layer, the patterned circuit layer being electrically connected to the component.