A method for manufacturing a flexible printed circuit board, comprising: providing a flexible printed circuit substrate; defining first through holes and second through holes through the flexible printed circuit substrate; and forming first conductive pillars and second conductive pillars; and defining first grooves by removing a portion of each first conductive pillar and defining second grooves by removing a portion of each second conductive pillar; the first grooves and the second grooves are defined from an outer surface of the flexible printed circuit board on the second conductive pattern layer side to a surface of the second conductive pattern layer away from the first conductive pattern layer; each of the first grooves is aligned with and corresponds to one first conductive pillar, and each of the second grooves is aligned with and corresponds to one second conductive pillar.

The present disclosure provides a printed circuit board including a plurality of conductive layers separated by insulating medium and a plurality of connection structures. Each connection structure penetrates each of the conductive layers. The plurality of conductive layers comprises a first conductive layer in which first signal lines are located and a second conductive layer in which second signal lines are located, and the first and second signal lines are connected via the connection structures. Anti-pads surrounding the connection structures are provided on others of the plurality of conductive layers except the first and the second conductive layers. For a same connection structure, the anti-pads surrounding the connection structure include adjacent anti-pads and nonadjacent anti-pads. Size of the adjacent anti-pads in any direction parallel to the conductive layers is smaller than that of the nonadjacent anti-pads. The present disclosure also provides a display apparatus.

A multi-layer PCB has conductive vias (134) passing through multiple layers. A layer may have a conductive non-functional feature (710) physically contacting a via but not surrounding the via, to make the PCB more resistant to thermal stresses while, at the same time, reducing the parasitic capacitance compared to a prior art non-functional pad (310n).

A printed circuit board includes: an insulating layer having a via hole formed therein; a single layer metal pad disposed in the insulating layer and having a center portion that is exposed by the via hole, the center portion of the pad having a higher roughness than peripheral portions of the pad; and a via formed in the via hole and connected to the center portion of the pad.

In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, a circuit board may include a first trace formed in a first layer of the circuit board, a second trace formed in a second layer of the circuit board, a via, and a termination pad. The via may be configured to electrically couple the first trace to the second trace, the via comprising a via stub corresponding to a first portion of a length of the via not within a second portion of the via between a first location in which the first trace is electrically coupled to the via and a second location in which the second trace is electrically coupled to the via. The termination pad may be formed at an end of the via stub opposite at least one of the first location and the second location.

A method of manufacturing a circuit substrate including forming, in an insulating substrate and circuit patterns that are provided on a first surface and a second surface of the insulating substrate, a through-hole penetrating the insulating substrate and the circuit patterns, where the circuit patterns contain Cu as a main component. The method including filling, in the through-hole, an electrically conductive paste that is a melting-point shift electrically conductive paste including SnBi solder powder, Cu powder, and resin, and forming a protrusion obtained by causing the electrically conductive paste to protrude from the through-hole. The method further including performing pressure treatment on the protrusion near the through-hole; and performing heat treatment on the insulating substrate whose protrusion is subjected to the pressure treatment and causing the circuit patterns and the electrically conductive paste to be electrically connected with each other.

A wiring substrate includes a first conductor layer, an insulating layer formed on the first conductor layer, a second conductor layer formed on the insulating layer, a connection conductor penetrating through the insulating layer and connecting the first and second conductor layers, and a coating film formed on a surface of the first conductor layer and adhering the first conductor layer and the insulating layer. The first conductor layer includes a conductor pad in contact with the connection conductor such that the conductor pad has a surface having a first region and a second region on second conductor layer side and that surface roughness of the first region is different from surface roughness of the second region, and the conductor pad of the first conductor layer is formed such that the first region is covered by the coating film and that the second region is covered by the connection conductor.

The present disclosure provides a printed circuit board including a plurality of conductive layers separated by insulating medium and a plurality of connection structures. Each connection structure penetrates each of the conductive layers. The plurality of conductive layers comprises a first conductive layer in which first signal lines are located and a second conductive layer in which second signal lines are located, and the first and second signal lines are connected via the connection structures. Anti-pads surrounding the connection structures are provided on others of the plurality of conductive layers except the first and the second conductive layers. For a same connection structure, the anti-pads surrounding the connection structure include adjacent anti-pads and nonadjacent anti-pads. Size of the adjacent anti-pads in any direction parallel to the conductive layers is smaller than that of the nonadjacent anti-pads. The present disclosure also provides a display apparatus.

A wiring board includes: a wiring-board body including a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface, and including at least one insulator layer; pads formed at at least one of an internal layer boundary plane and the first surface and the second surface defining a first plane; and via conductors connected to corresponding ones of the pads, and arranged in parallel to extend in a thickness direction of the wiring-board body. Each of first and second ones of the pads adjacent to each other in planar view at the first plane is connected to corresponding ones of the via conductors. The via conductors corresponding to the first pad are arranged differently from the via conductors corresponding to the second pad, in planar view.

The present disclosure generally relates to semiconductor structures and, more particularly, to via and skip via structures and methods of manufacture. The method includes: forming a first metallization layer with a first capping layer over the first metallization layer; forming a second metallization layer with a second capping layer over the second metallization layer; forming a partial skip via structure to the first metallization layer by removing a portion of the first capping layer and the second capping and depositing conductive material in an opening formed in the second metallization layer; forming a third capping layer over the filled partial skip via and the second capping layer; and forming a remaining portion of a skip via structure in alignment with the partial skip via structure by opening the third capping layer to expose the conductive material of the partial skip via.