Glass layers having partially embedded conductive layers for power delivery in semiconductor packages and related methods are disclosed. An example semiconductor package includes a core layer having a thickness between a first surface opposite a second surface. The core layer includes a trench provided in the first surface. The trench partially extending between the first surface and the second surface. An electrically conductive material is positioned in the trench. A trace is provided on the conductive material. The trace is offset in a direction away from the first surface and away from the second surface of the core layer.

A flexible circuit board is provided. The flexible circuit board includes a first conductive layer, an adhesive layer, and a cover layer. The first conductive layer extends along a first direction. The adhesive layer is disposed on the first conductive layer and has a first side. The cover layer is disposed on the adhesive layer and has a second side. In addition, a bottom of the first side protrudes from a bottom of the second side in the first direction by a distance.

A component carrier includes a layer body with at least one electrically conductive layer structure and/or at least one electrically insulating layer structure, a component embedded in the layer body, and at least one galvanic connection stack at least partially on at least part of at least one main surface of the layer body. At least one of a bottom main surface and a top main surface of the embedded component is electrically connected to the at least one galvanic connection stack.

A circuit board according to an embodiment includes an insulating portion; and a pattern portion disposed on the insulating portion, wherein the insulating portion includes: a first insulating region, and a second insulating region disposed outside the first insulating region and spaced apart from the first insulating region with a separation region therebetween; wherein the pattern portion includes: a first pattern portion for signal transmission; and a second pattern portion including a dummy pattern separated from the first pattern portion, wherein the first pattern portion includes: a first terminal portion disposed on the first insulating region; a second terminal portion disposed on the second insulating region; and a connection portion disposed on the separation region and connecting between the first terminal portion and the second terminal portion, wherein the second pattern portion includes: a second-first pattern portion disposed on the first insulating region; and a second-second pattern portion disposed on the second insulating region and separated from the second-first pattern portion.

An apparatus is disclosed for transferring a pattern of a composition containing particles of an electrically conductive material and a thermally activated adhesive from a surface of a flexible web to a surface of a substrate. The apparatus comprises: respective drive mechanisms for advancing the web and the substrate to a nip through which the web and the substrate pass at the same time and where a pressure roller acts to press the surfaces of the web and the substrate against one another, a heating station for heating at least one of the web and the substrate prior to, or during, passage through the nip, to a temperature at which the adhesive in the composition is activated, a cooling station for cooling the web after passage through the nip, and a separating device for peeling the web away from the substrate after passage through the cooling station, to leave the pattern of composition adhered to the surface of the substrate.

A wiring board includes: a wiring layer; an insulating layer laminated on the wiring layer; an opening portion penetrating through the insulating layer to the wiring layer; a recess portion formed in a surface of the wiring layer exposed from the opening portion of the insulating layer; and a conductor film formed in the opening portion of the insulating layer and the recess portion of the wiring layer, wherein the recess portion of the wiring layer includes a raised portion, which is raised higher than an outer peripheral portion of a bottom surface, at a central portion of the bottom surface.

An electronic device and a method for manufacturing a flexible circuit board are provided. The electronic device includes the flexible circuit board. The flexible circuit board includes a first flexible substrate, a first seed layer, a first conductive layer, and a second seed layer. The first seed layer is disposed on the first flexible substrate. The first conductive layer is disposed on the first seed layer. The second seed layer is disposed on the first conductive layer. The first seed layer is in contact with the first conductive layer.

A bonded body according to an embodiment includes a ceramic substrate, a copper plate, and a bonding layer that is located on at least one surface of the ceramic substrate and bonds the ceramic substrate and the copper plate. The bonding layer includes titanium. The bonding layer includes first and second regions; the first region includes a layer including titanium as a major component; the layer is formed at an interface of the bonding layer with the ceramic substrate; and the second region is positioned between the first region and the copper plate. The bonded body has a ratio M1/M2 of a titanium concentration M1 at % in the first region and a titanium concentration M2 at % in the second region that is not less than 0.1 and not more than 5 when the Ti concentrations are measured by EDX respectively in measurement regions in the first and second regions.

Provide is a metal-coated liquid-crystal polymer film that is suitable for microcircuit processing and capable of reducing the transmission loss of circuits. The metal-coated liquid-crystal polymer film comprising: a polymer film comprising a polymer film main body capable of forming an optically anisotropic melt phase; a first metal layer layered on at least one side of the polymer film main body; and a second metal layer layered on the first metal layer, wherein in an analysis of oxygen concentration in a thickness direction using XPS, the average oxygen concentration of the first metal layer is 2.5 atom % or less.

Technologies for applying gold-plated contact pads to circuit boards are disclosed. In one embodiment, an array of gold-plated contact pads is prepared on a flexible substrate. The array of gold-plated contact pads can then be transferred to a circuit board, such as by soldering the gold-plated contact pads to the circuit board. In another embodiment, an array of contact pads are prepared on a top and bottom surface of a substrate, and vias are added to connect the contact pads on the top and bottom surfaces. The top array of contact pads are gold-plated. The bottom array of contact pads are mated to a circuit board. Techniques described herein allow for gold-plated contact pads to be applied to a circuit board without requiring the entire circuit board to undergo a gold plating process, which may reduce manufacturing costs.