Disclosed are a method for fabricating a printed circuit board wherein through-holes are formed in an organic substrate, followed by forming micro-circuit patterns through sputtering and plating, whereby the printed circuit board has low permittivity properties and enables high-speed processing, and a printed circuit board fabricated thereby. The disclosed method for fabricating a printed circuit board comprises the steps of: preparing a base substrate; forming a through-hole perforating the base substrate; forming a thin seed layer on the base substrate and in the through-hole; forming a thin plate layer on the thin seed layer; and etching the thin seed layer and the thin plate layer to form a micro-circuit pattern, wherein the base substrate is one selected from an organic substrate, FR-4, and Prepreg.

Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed toward techniques and configurations for electrical signal absorption in an interconnect stub. In one instance, a printed circuit board (PCB) assembly may comprise a substrate and an interconnect (such as a via) formed in the substrate to route an electrical signal within the PCB. The interconnect may include a stub formed on the interconnect. At least a portion of the stub may be covered with an absorbing material to at least partially absorb a portion of the electric signal that is reflected by the stub. The absorbing material may be selected such that its dielectric loss tangent is greater than one, for a frequency range of a frequency of the reflected portion of the electric signal. A dielectric constant of the absorbing material may be inversely proportionate to the frequency of the reflected electric signal. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.

An electronic component unit and a wire harness include a bus bar plate. The bus bar plate is equipped with a resistor that has a main body and a pair of terminals protruding from the main body, and a substrate main body in which a metallic bus bar is built in a resin material and which has a component mounting section with the resistor mounted thereon. The component mounting section includes a pair of through-holes that penetrates the resin material and the bus bar and allows the terminals to pass, and a recess that is provided between the pair of through-holes, extends in a straight line shape connecting the pair of through-holes, and is capable of supporting the main body of the resistor.

A component carrier includes a stack with a plurality of electrically conductive layer structures and at least one electrically insulating layer structure. The electrically conductive layer structures include an electrically conductive vertical through-connection and a horizontally extending electrically conductive trace electrically coupled with an end portion of the vertical through-connection. A back-drill hole extends through at least part of the at least one electrically insulating layer structure towards the end portion of the vertical through-connection. An etching neck connects the back-drill hole with the end portion of the vertical through-connection.

A printed circuit board (‘PCB’) including a substrate integrated waveguide (‘SIW’) formed using two ground planes representing the top and bottom walls of the waveguide, tightly pitched ground vias to act as two side walls and two back walls, and a pair of monopole antennas placed at each end of the SIW acting as signal feeding/receiving structures is disclosed. The waveguide dominant mode cut off frequency is determined by the spacing between the two side walls. Within each monopole antenna pair, the first monopole antenna operates at a first frequency while the second monopole antenna operates at another frequency. For each monopole antenna pair, the first monopole antenna and the second monopole antenna are located in the SIW at a distance from the back wall optimal for each operating frequency.

A circuit board includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a third substrate, a plurality of conductive structures and a conductive via structure. The second substrate is disposed between the first substrate and the third substrate. The third substrate has an opening and includes a first dielectric layer, a second dielectric layer, and a third dielectric layer. The opening penetrates the first dielectric layer and the second dielectric layer, and the third dielectric layer fully fills the opening. The conductive via structure penetrates the first substrate, the second substrate, the third dielectric layer of the third substrate, and is electrically connected to the first substrate and the third substrate to define a signal path. The first substrate, the second substrate, and the third substrate are electrically connected through the conductive structures to define a ground path, and the ground path surrounds the signal path.

A printed circuit board includes a first insulating layer, a second insulating layer disposed on a lower surface of the first insulating layer, an electronic component embedded in the second insulating layer and at least partially in contact with the first insulating layer, a first wiring layer disposed on an upper surface of the first insulating layer, a second wiring layer disposed on a lower surface of the second insulating layer, and a first wiring via penetrating through the first and second insulating layers and connecting at least portions of the first and second wiring layers to each other.

The present disclosure is directed to a hybrid dielectric interconnect stack for a printed circuit board having a first dielectric layer with a first dielectric constant and a first dielectric loss tangent positioned over an intermediate layer, which includes a first dielectric sublayer with a first sublayer dielectric constant and a first sublayer dielectric loss tangent, an embedded conductive layer, and a second dielectric sublayer with a second sublayer dielectric constant and a second sublayer dielectric loss tangent, in which the embedded conductive layer is positioned between the first and second dielectric sublayers, and a second dielectric layer with a second dielectric constant and a second dielectric loss tangent, in which the intermediate layer is positioned between the first and second dielectric layers.

A high frequency signal cross-layer transmission structure in a multi-layer printed circuit board includes a bottom metal layer, a middle metal layer and a top metal layer. The bottom metal layer includes a bottom ground plane and a bottom conductive area. The middle metal layer includes a middle ground plane. The top metal layer includes a top ground plane and a top conductive area. The bottom ground plane defines and surrounds a bottom annular clearance area. The middle ground plane defines and surrounds a middle clearance area. The top ground plane defines and surrounds a top annular clearance area. The bottom annular clearance area surrounds at least one part of the bottom conductive area. The top annular clearance area surrounds at least one part of the top conductive area. A size-shape of the top annular clearance area is different from a size-shape of the middle clearance area.

A disk device according to one embodiment includes a recording medium, a magnetic head, a wiring member, and a flexible printed circuit board. The magnetic head is configured to read/write information from/to the recording medium. The wiring member includes a plurality of first terminals, and a plurality of first wires that electrically connect the magnetic head to the first terminals. The flexible printed circuit board includes a surface, a plurality of second terminals located on the surface to be connected to the first terminals by means of a conductive adhesive, and a ground plane spaced apart from the second terminals in a direction along the surface.