A stacked structure includes a circuit board, an electronic component, metallic cores, and insulating cladding layers. The circuit board includes first bonding pads. The electronic component includes second bonding pads that are opposite to the first bonding pads. Each metallic core is connected to a corresponding first bonding pad and a corresponding second bonding pad. The metallic cores have a curved surface interposed between the corresponding first bonding pad and the corresponding second bonding pad. The insulating cladding layers are separated from each other and cover the curved surfaces of the metallic cores.

There is provided a method for forming an electrically conductive ultrafine pattern which has an excellent pattern cross-sectional shape is provided by a composite technique including a printing process and a plating process, and furthermore, by imparting excellent adhesion to each interface of a laminate including a plating core pattern, an electrically conductive ultrafine pattern which can be preferably used as a highly accurate electric circuit and a method for manufacturing the same are also provided. The method includes (1) a step of applying a resin composition to form a receiving layer on a substrate; (2) a step of printing an ink containing plating core particles by a reverse offset printing method to form a plating core pattern on the receiving layer; and (3) a step of depositing a metal on the plating core pattern formed in the step (2) by an electrolytic plating method.

Conductive patterns and methods of using and printing such conductive patterns are disclosed. In certain examples, the conductive patterns may be produced by disposing a conductive material between supports on a substrate. The supports may be removed to provide conductive patterns having a desired length and/or geometry.

A photosensitive resin composition includes electrically conductive particles (A) whose surfaces are coated with a carbon simple substance and/or a carbon compound; an alkali-soluble resin (B) containing an acid-dissociation group; and a metal chelate compound (C) wherein the metal chelate compound (C) includes at least one selected from the group consisting of Au, Ag, Cu, Cr, Fe, Co, Ni, Bi, Pb, Zn, Pd, Pt, Al, Ti, Zr, W and Mo.

A conductor unit includes: a plurality of conductors each including a conducting portion covered with an insulating coating; an annular core that includes a first core constituent portion and a second core constituent portion combined with the first core constituent portion, and that interposes the conductors between the first core constituent portion and the second core constituent portion; and a holding member that makes the first core constituent portion and the second core constituent portion press and hold the conductors therebetween.

An anisotropic conductive film is capable of preventing a short circuit between terminals even though narrowing of the interval between connecting terminals advances. An electrically conductive support plate supports a base film having one surface with an adhesive layer. An array plate is disposed to face the adhesive layer and has through holes arranged in a pattern corresponding to the array pattern of electrically conductive particles. A spray sprays the electrically conductive particles together with a liquid while applying a voltage to the electrically conductive particles, in which the electrically conductive particles which are charged with an electrical charge are sprayed together with a liquid from the spray while applying a voltage between the spray and the support plate and the electrically conductive particles which have passed through the through holes of the array plate are arranged on the adhesive layer in the array pattern of the through holes.

An electrically conductive paste contains: metal nanoparticles which are protected by an organic compound containing an amino group and have an average particle diameter of 30 nm to 400 nm; metal particles which are protected by a higher fatty acid and have an average particle diameter of 1 m to 5 m; an organic solvent; and a resin component consisting of a cellulose derivative. A conductor obtained by firing the electrically conductive paste has a film thickness of 30 m or more and a specific resistance of 5.010.sup.6 .Math.cm or less. In this way, the electrically conductive paste can reduce the resistance of the obtained conductor and to increase the amount of current flowing. A wiring board includes a conductor obtained from the electrically conductive paste.

A method for producing an electrical wiring member includes press-molding a composition containing a resin material and metal particles with an insulating layer, each of which is constituted by a metal particle and a surface insulating layer covering the metal particle and containing a glass material as a main material, thereby obtaining a powder-compacted layer and irradiating the powder-compacted layer with an energy beam, thereby causing the irradiated regions to exhibit electrical conductivity.

Provided is an ink for use in electronic component production making use of screen printing, which is suitable for actually allowing fine lines with high precision to be drawn in screen printing, and for actually allowing successive screen printing operations to be performed. The ink for screen printing of the present invention includes surface-modified silver nanoparticles (A) and a solvent (B), and has a viscosity at a shear rate of 10 (1/s) and 25 C. of 60 Pa.Math.s or more. The surface-modified silver nanoparticles (A) each include a silver nanoparticle and an amine-containing protective agent coating the silver nanoparticle. The solvent (B) includes at least a terpene solvent. In solvent (B), a content of solvents having a boiling point of less than 130 C. is 20 wt % or less based on the total amount of solvents.

A method for producing a conductive liquid electrophotographic ink composition is described, the method comprising: heating a polymer resin in a carrier fluid to dissolve the polymer resin; adding conductive metallic pigment particles to be coated to the carrier fluid; cooling the carrier fluid to effect precipitation of the polymer resin from the carrier fluid such that a coating of the resin is at least partially formed on the conductive metallic pigment particles; reheating the suspension of partially coated conductive metallic pigment particles in the carrier fluid; and cooling the carrier fluid at a controlled rate to effect precipitation of the polymer resin from the carrier fluid such that a coating of the resin is formed on the conductive metallic pigment particles, thereby producing the conductive liquid electrophotographic ink composition.