A flexible circuit board having enhanced bending durability and a method for preparing same are provided. The method comprises: forming a signal line and a first ground layer on a first dielectric body and forming a second ground layer on a bottom side of the first dielectric body; preparing a second dielectric body; preparing a first bonding sheet and a first protective sheet which is connected to one end of the first bonding sheet or of which one or more parts are overlapped on one end of the first bonding sheet; bonding the second dielectric body onto the first dielectric body by means of the first bonding sheet; forming a via hole such that the first ground layer and the second ground layer are conducted; and cutting in a width direction the second dielectric body placed on the first protective sheet.

A component carrier with an electrically insulating layer having a front side and a back side, a first and a second electrically conductive layer covering the front side and the back side of the electrically insulating layer, respectively. A through hole extends through both electrically conductive layers and the electrically insulating layer. An overhang is formed along one of the electrically conductive layers and sidewalls of the electrically insulating layer structure delimiting the through hole. An annular plating layer covers the sidewalls and fills part of the overhang such that a horizontal extension of the overhang after plating is less than 20 m and/or such that a ratio between a horizontal extension of the overhang after plating and a width of a first window through the first electrically conductive layer and/or a width of a second window through the second electrically conductive layer is smaller than 20%.

A method of manufacturing a component carrier is disclosed. The method includes providing an electrically insulating layer structure having a front side and a back side, wherein the front side is covered by a first electrically conductive layer structure and the back side is covered by a second electrically conductive layer structure, carrying out a first opening process, such as a first laser drilling, through the first electrically conductive layer structure and into the electrically insulating layer structure from the front side to thereby form a blind hole in the electrically insulating layer structure, and thereafter carrying out a second opening process, such as a second laser drilling, through the second electrically conductive layer structure and through the electrically insulating layer structure from the back side to thereby extend the blind hole into a through hole, in particular a laser through hole, with substantially trapezoidal shape.

A method includes providing an electrically conductive layer structure on top of an electrically insulating layer structure, forming a window in the electrically conductive layer structure and removing material of the electrically insulating layer structure below the window by a first laser beam, and subsequently removing further material of the electrically insulating layer structure below the window by a second laser beam having a smaller size than a size of the window.

A component carrier with a stack including at least one electrically insulating layer structure and at least one electrically insulating structure has a tapering blind hole formed in the stack and an electrically conductive plating layer extending along at least part of a horizontal surface of the stack outside of the blind hole and along at least part of a surface of the blind hole. A minimum thickness of the plating layer at a bottom of the blind hole is at least 8 m.

A component carrier includes an electrically insulating layer structure having a first main surface and a second main surface with a through hole extending through the electrically insulating layer structure between the first main surface and the second main surface. An electrically conductive bridge structure connects opposing sidewalls of the electrically insulating layer structure delimiting the through hole. A vertical thickness of the electrically insulating layer structure is not more than 200 m and a narrowest vertical thickness of the bridge structure is at least 20 m.

A manufacturing method for a printed circuit board for positioning a laser beam output from a laser output device by using a galvano device and an f lens and forming a hole in the printed circuit board including a copper layer and an insulating layer, the method including forming a through-hole in the copper layer by the laser beam whose outer diameter is shaped by a first aperture, and processing the insulating layer by the laser beam whose outer diameter is shaped by a second aperture having a smaller diameter than the first aperture.

To provide a molded product, a metal-clad laminate and a printed wiring board, each of which contains a tetrafluoroethylene type polymer, whereby an decrease in electrical characteristics is inhibited and a hole can be easily bored with UV-YAG laser; and methods for their production. A molded product containing a tetrafluoroethylene type polymer, in which the content of components other than the tetrafluoroethylene type polymer is at most 0.9 mass %, and which has a wavelength range where the extinction coefficient becomes to be from 1.2 to 4.5 at from 200 to 380 nm; and a method for its production. A metal-clad laminate having a conductive metal layer and a layer of the molded product; and a method for its production. A printed wiring board provided with the metal-clad laminate and having through-holes in the thickness direction of the polymer layer.

Provided is a multilayer wiring board for inspection of electronic components which has excellent reliability by improving the adhesiveness between a resin wiring portion and a ceramic wiring substrate. A multilayer wiring board 10 according to the present invention includes: a ceramic wiring substrate 20 having a substrate main surface 21 and a substrate rear surface 22; substrate-side conductive layers 32, 33 formed on the substrate main surface 21; and a resin wiring portion 40 stacked on the substrate main surface 21 so as to cover the substrate-side conductive layers 32, 33. Inspection pads 50, 51 for inspection of electronic components are formed on a front surface 49 of the resin wiring portion 40. End surfaces of the substrate-side conductive layers 33 are exposed from side surfaces 13 of the multilayer wiring board 10. An outer peripheral edge of a rear surface of the resin wiring portion 40 is in contact with the surfaces of the substrate-side conductive layers 33, and end surfaces of the resin wiring portion 40 and the end surfaces of the substrate-side conductive layers 33 are positioned closer to the center of the board than end surfaces 23 of the ceramic wiring substrate 20.

In one example, a method includes drilling a cavity into each contact pad of one or more contact pads of a first printed circuit board to form one or more cavities. The first printed circuit board includes an embedded integrated circuit and one or more metal layers. The method further includes forming one or more first metal layers for a second printed circuit board below a bottom surface of the first printed circuit board. The method further includes forming an electrically conductive material in the one or more cavities. The electrically conductive material electrically couples the one or more contact pads of the first printed circuit board to the second printed circuit board. The method further includes forming one or more second metal layers for the second printed circuit board above a top surface of the first printed circuit board.