A surface-treated copper foil of the present disclosure includes a copper foil substrate, at least one surface of which has a surface treatment coat including at least a roughening-treated surface on which roughening particles are formed. Observation of a cross-section of the surface-treated copper foil with a scanning electron microscope shows that on a surface of the surface treatment coat, a standard deviation of the particle height of the roughening particles is 0.16 m or more and 0.30 m or less, and an average value of the ratio of the particle height to the particle width (particle height/particle width) of the roughening particles is 2.30 or more and 4.00 or less.

A method for manufacturing a wiring board includes preparing a core substrate having first and second surfaces, forming a first build-up structure including interlayer insulating layers and conductor layers on the first surface of the substrate, and forming a second build-up structure including interlayer insulating layers and one or more conductor layers on the second surface of the substrate. The forming of the first structure includes laminating the insulating layers and metal layers on first surface side of the substrate and forming the conductor layers from all of the metal layers on the first surface side, and the forming of the second structure includes laminating the insulating layers and metal layers on second surface side of the substrate, forming the one or more conductor layers from one or more of the metal layers on the second surface side, and entirely removing the other metal layers on the second surface side.

A wiring substrate includes a core substrate; a first build-up part including first conductor layers, a second build-up part including second conductor layers, a third build-up part including third conductor layers and having the outermost surface of the wiring substrate, and a fourth build-up part including one or more fourth conductor layers and having the outermost surface of the wiring substrate. The minimum wiring width of wirings in the third conductor layers is smaller than that of wirings in the first, second and fourth conductor layers. The minimum inter-wiring distance of the wirings in the third conductor layers is smaller than that of the wirings in the first, second and fourth conductor layers. The wirings in the third conductor layers have the minimum wiring width of 3 m or less, the minimum inter-wiring distance of 3 m or less, and an aspect ratio in the range of 2.0 to 4.0.

A printed wiring board includes a core substrate having cavity to accommodate an electronic component and including a front conductor layer formed on front side of the core substrate, and a back conductor layer formed on back side of the core substrate, through-hole conductors formed through the core substrate such that the through-hole conductors connect the front and back conductor layers of the core substrate, a front build-up layer formed on front surface of the core substrate and including interlayer insulating layers and conductor layers, and a back build-up layer formed on back surface of the core substrate and including interlayer insulating layers and conductor layers. The conductor layers in the front build-up layer include a conductor layer sandwiching one of the interlayer insulating layers with the front conductor layer such that the conductor layer and the front conductor layer have the same electric potential in region surrounding the cavity.

A carbene-coated metal foil is produced by applying an N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) compound to one or more surfaces of a metal foil (e.g., an electrodeposited copper foil having a surface that is smooth and non-oxidized). The NHC compound contains a matrix-reactive pendant group that includes at least one of a vinyl-, allyl-, acrylic-, methacrylic-, styrenic-, amine-, amide- and epoxy-containing moiety capable of reacting with a base polymer (e.g., a vinyl-containing resin such as a polyphenylene oxide/triallyl-isocyanurate (PPO/TAIC) composition). The NHC compound may be synthesized by, for example, reacting a halogenated imidazolium salt (e.g., 1,3-bis(4-bromo-2,6-dimethylphenyl)-4,5-dihydro-1H-imidazol-3-ium chloride) and an organostannane having a vinyl-containing moiety (e.g., tributyl(vinyl)stannane) in the presence of a palladium catalyst. In some embodiments, an enhanced substrate for a printed circuit board (PCB) is produced by laminating the carbene-coated metal foil to a substrate that includes glass fiber impregnated with the base polymer.

Methods, systems, devices, and products for constructing a downhole tool electronics module. Methods may include creating a circuit board by metallizing at least part of a first surface on a first side of a substrate to define at least one metallized area on the first surface, wherein the substrate comprises a ceramic material and includes: the first side, including at least (i) the first surface, and (ii) an elevated surface elevated from the first surface, and a second side opposite the first side; flattening at least partially the elevated surface to a predefined first flatness to create a mounting portion by removing material from the elevated surface; attaching an electronics component to the first surface; and mounting the circuit board on an electronics carrier by adhering at least part of the mounting portion to a mounting surface on the electronics carrier. Flattening at least partially the elevated surface to the predefined first flatness may be carried out by removing the material by areal grinding.

One aspect of the present invention relates to a resin composition comprising a curable resin and a curing agent, which is used for forming an inter-wiring layer insulating layer in contact with a copper wiring.

A carbene-coated metal foil is produced by applying an N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) compound to one or more surfaces of a metal foil (e.g., an electrodeposited copper foil having a surface that is smooth and non-oxidized). The NHC compound contains a matrix-reactive pendant group that includes at least one of a vinyl-, allyl-, acrylic-, methacrylic-, styrenic-, amine-, amide- and epoxy-containing moiety capable of reacting with a base polymer (e.g., a vinyl-containing resin such as a polyphenylene oxide/triallyl-isocyanurate (PPO/TAIC) composition). The NHC compound may be synthesized by, for example, reacting a halogenated imidazolium salt (e.g., 1,3-bis(4-bromo-2,6-dimethylphenyl)-4,5-dihydro-1H-imidazol-3-ium chloride) and an organostannane having a vinyl-containing moiety (e.g., tributyl(vinyl)stannane) in the presence of a palladium catalyst. In some embodiments, an enhanced substrate for a printed circuit board (PCB) is produced by laminating the carbene-coated metal foil to a substrate that includes glass fiber impregnated with the base polymer.

A method of manufacturing a multilayer wiring board is disclosed, the method being capable of separating a substrate without large local warpage of the multilayer wiring layer and thereby improving the reliability of connection in the multilayer wiring layer. This method includes providing a laminated sheet having, in sequence, a substrate, a first release layer and a metal layer; forming a first wiring layer on the metal layer; alternately stacking insulating layers and wiring layers on the laminated sheet on which the first wiring layer is formed to give a laminate provided with a multilayer wiring layer; stacking a reinforcing sheet on the laminate provided with the multilayer wiring layer while interposing a second release layer; separating the substrate from the metal layer; and separating the reinforcing sheet from the laminate provided with the multilayer wiring layer to give the multilayer wiring board.

A surface-treated copper foil of the present disclosure includes a copper foil substrate, at least one surface of which has a surface treatment coat including at least a roughening-treated surface on which roughening particles are formed. Observation of a cross-section of the surface-treated copper foil with a scanning electron microscope shows that on a surface of the surface treatment coat, a standard deviation of the particle height of the roughening particles is 0.16 m or more and 0.30 m or less, and an average value of the ratio of the particle height to the particle width (particle height/particle width) of the roughening particles is 2.30 or more and 4.00 or less.