A device comprises a first circuit member, a second circuit member and a third circuit member. The first circuit member comprises a first body for performing the function of the first circuit member and a first flexible board formed with a first integrated-electrode portion including first electrodes. The second circuit member comprises a second body for performing the function of the second circuit member and a second flexible board formed with a second integrated-electrode portion including second electrodes. The third circuit member comprises a third body for performing the function of the third circuit member and a third flexible board formed with a third integrated-electrode portion including third electrodes. The first integrated-electrode portion, the second integrated-electrode portion and the third integrated-electrode portion lie over each other in an upper-lower direction. The first body, second body and the third body are apart from each other when seen along the upper-lower direction.

A method for manufacturing a printed wiring board includes forming metal posts on a conductor circuit formed on a resin insulating layer, forming the outermost resin layer on the resin insulating layer such that the metal posts is embedded in the outermost resin layer, forming a mask at a dam formation site for a dam structure of the outermost resin layer to surround at least part of a pad group including the metal posts on the outermost resin layer, and reducing a thickness of the outermost resin layer exposed from the mask such that end portions of the metal posts are exposed from the outermost resin layer, that the metal posts form the pad group, and that the outermost resin layer has the dam structure forming part of the outermost resin layer and formed to surround at least part of the pad group including the metal posts.

Methods for forming electrical circuitries on three-dimensional (3D) structures and devices made using the methods. A method includes forming selectively shaped 3D structures using additive manufacturing. The method includes forming undercuts on upper-level pedestals of the 3D structures that effectively act as overhanging deposition masks for selectively preventing deposition of a selected material on a corresponding portions of lower levels. The method includes simultaneously forming and electrically isolating materials directionally deposited on the 3D structure.

A resin multilayer substrate includes a multilayer body including resin base-material layers in a thickness direction, a side-surface conductor on at least a side surface of the multilayer body and made of a metallic material with a coefficient of thermal expansion whose difference from a coefficient of thermal expansion of the resin base-material layers in a plane direction is smaller than a difference from a coefficient of thermal expansion of the resin base-material layers in the thickness direction, a circuit component in the multilayer body and defining a circuit, and inner conductors in the multilayer body, located between the side-surface conductor and the circuit component along the side-surface conductor, and at least partially overlapping each other when viewed in the thickness direction, each of the inner conductors being one of a dummy conductor and a ground conductor.

A fibrillated liquid crystal polymer powder containing fibrillated liquid crystal polymer particles. A paste containing a dispersion medium and the fibrillated liquid crystal polymer powder. A method of producing the fibrillated liquid crystal polymer powder. A resin multilayer substrate obtained by laminating a plurality of resin sheets including at least one layer of a liquid crystal polymer sheet. On a surface of at least one layer of the liquid crystal polymer sheet, a thickness adjustment layer made of a fibrillated liquid crystal polymer powder containing fibrillated liquid crystal polymer particles is provided in a region insufficient in thickness when at least the plurality of resin sheets are laminated.

A resin substrate includes an insulating base material including opposing first and second main surfaces, at least one of which is parallel or substantially parallel to each of an X-axis direction and a Y-axis direction. The insulating base material is divided into first and second sections arranged in the X-axis direction. The first section includes, when evenly divided into three in a Z-axis direction, a first region closest to the first main surface, a second region closest to the second main surface, and a third region between the first region and the second region. A degree of resin molecular orientation in the first region in the Y-axis direction is greater than a degree of resin molecular orientation in the second section of the insulating base material in the Y-axis direction.

Provided are an insulating material for a circuit substrate, which has excellent dielectric characteristics in a high frequency area, has low coefficients of linear thermal expansion all in a MD direction, a TD direction, and a ZD direction, is easily manufactured and has excellent productivity, and a method for manufacturing the same and a metal foil-clad laminate. An insulating material for a circuit substrate, comprising a laminate having a thermoplastic liquid crystal polymer film and a woven fabric of an inorganic fiber, wherein the thermoplastic liquid crystal polymer film contains an inorganic filler, and the laminate is a dry laminate in which the thermoplastic liquid crystal polymer film and the woven fabric are thermocompression bonded.

A circuit board structure includes a first sub-circuit board, a second sub-circuit board, and a third sub-circuit board. The first sub-circuit board has an upper surface and a lower surface opposite to each other, and includes at least one first conductive through hole. The second sub-circuit board is disposed on the upper surface of the first sub-circuit board and includes at least one second conductive through hole. The third sub-circuit board is disposed on the lower surface of the first sub-circuit board and includes at least one third conductive through hole. At least two of the first conductive through hole, the second conductive through hole, and the third conductive through hole are alternately arranged in an axial direction perpendicular to an extending direction of the first sub-circuit board. The first sub-circuit board, the second sub-circuit board, and the third sub-circuit board are electrically connected to one another.

A stacked body includes a first resin layer including a thermoplastic first resin as a main material, a pattern including a conductor layer on one principal surface of the first resin layer, and a second resin layer including a thermoplastic second resin as a main material. The first resin layer is softer than the second resin layer. The first resin layer has a lower dielectric constant than the second resin layer. A pattern including the conductor layer is at least partially embedded in the first resin layer, and includes a portion in contact with the first resin layer along a layer direction (X-Y plane) of the first resin layer and a portion in contact with the first resin layer along a stacking direction (X-Z plane) of the first resin layer, the second resin layer, and the pattern including the conductor layer.

A multilayer board includes a first insulator layer including a first coil pattern thereon, a second insulator layer including a second coil pattern thereon, a third insulator layer including a third coil pattern thereon, a first terminal on the first insulator layer and connected to one end of the first coil pattern, a first floating pattern on the first insulator layer and not connected to the first coil pattern, and a second terminal on the third insulator layer and connected to one end of the third coil pattern. The first, second, and third insulator layers are sequentially laminated. The first, second, and third coil patterns are respectively electrically connected in sequence. The first floating pattern overlaps the second coil pattern when viewed from a laminating direction.