According to one embodiment, a template includes a base body, and a first film. The base body has a first surface and a second surface. The first surface includes silicon oxide and spreads along a first plane. The second surface crosses the first plane. The first film includes aluminum oxide. A direction from the second surface toward the first film is aligned with a direction perpendicular to the second surface. A thickness of the first film along the direction perpendicular to the second surface is not less than 0.3 nm and not more than 10 μm. The first surface includes an unevenness.

Disclosed herein is an in-mold electronics (IME) structure. The IME structure includes a film, a first plastic resin positioned under the film, and a second plastic resin positioned under the first plastic resin. An electronic circuit is formed on a top or bottom surface of the second plastic resin by a plating method and also electronic elements are mounted thereon. The electronic elements include LED light sources, a plurality of protruding light guides configured to guide lighting through distribution and direction is formed on the top surface of the second plastic resin, and the LED light sources are installed in respective spaces provided by the light guides.

A method may include coating an electronic module in a tool, where the electronic module has a first sub-module and a second sub-module, where the tool has a first tool part and a second tool part, where the tool has a cavity at least partially formed between the first tool part and the second tool part, and where the first sub-module and the second sub-module are supported on the tool and held in the cavity at a spatially defined distance relative to one another in a contactless manner during the coating process. A tool for performing such method may include a first tool part and a second tool part that form a cavity, where the first tool part has a first molding surface section and at least one first supporting section that extends over the first molding surface section and the second tool part has a second molding surface section and at least one second supporting section that extends over the second molding surface section.

Systems and methods for additive manufacturing. In some examples, a system includes a frame defining an interior volume and an overhead robotic arm suspended from a gantry on a ceiling of the frame. The system includes manufacturing subsystems located within the interior volume of the frame. The system includes a control system configured for controlling the overhead robotic arm for parts movement among additive manufacturing processes using the manufacturing subsystems. The manufacturing subsystems can include one or more of: a microassembly station, an aerosol jetting print station, an intense pulsed light (IPL) photonic sintering station, a fiber weaving station, and a 3D printing station.

Systems and methods in which a material or materials (e.g., a viscous material) are printed or otherwise transferred onto an intermediate substrate at a printing unit(s). The intermediate substrate having an image of material printed thereon is subsequently transferred to a sample building unit, and the image of material is transferred from the intermediate substrate to a sample at the sample building unit. Optionally, the printing unit(s) includes a coating system that creates a uniform layer of the material on a donor substrate, and the material is transferred from the donor substrate onto the intermediate substrate at the printing unit(s). Each of the printing units may employ a variety of printing or other transfer technologies. The system may also include material curing, heating, sintering, ablating, material filling, imaging and cleaning units to aid in the overall process.

A substrate-fastening device and a substrate-assembling structure are disclosed. The substrate-fastening device includes a base and a fastening component. The base correspondingly carries a substrate including a perforation. The fastening component is disposed on the base, corresponds to the perforation, and includes a supporting portion, a positioning portion, a resin-attaching portion, an end portion and a fixation resin. The supporting portion is disposed on the base to support the substrate. The positioning portion is disposed on a supporting surface of the supporting portion and extended along the perforation. The resin-attaching portion is extended along the perforation. The end portion is connected to the positioning portion through the resin-attaching portion. The fixation resin is disposed around the resin-attaching portion and connected between the end portion and the positioning portion. The fixation resin covers the second surface adjacent to the perforation, and fills the gap between the resin-attaching portion and the perforation.

A substrate processing apparatus that can radiate light on a composition in an optimum radiation amount based on acquired spectral sensitivity characteristics can be provided.

A substrate processing apparatus configured to perform pattern formation processing on a composition on a substrate includes a first radiation unit configured to radiate first light onto the substrate, a dispenser configured to apply the composition to a first position inside the substrate processing apparatus, a template holding unit configured to hold a template to be brought in contact with the composition on the substrate, and a controller configured to control a radiation amount of the first light to be radiated by the first radiation unit based on spectral sensitivity characteristics of the composition that are measured in advance.

A camera module, a molded circuit board assembly, a molded photosensitive assembly and manufacturing method thereof are disclosed. The camera module includes a molded base which is integrally formed with a circuit board through a molding process, wherein a photosensitive element may be electrically connected on the circuit board and at least a portion of a non-photosensitive area portion of the photosensitive element is also connected by the molded base through the molding process. A light window is formed in a central portion of the molded base to provide a light path for the photosensitive element, wherein a cross section of the light window is configured to have a trapezoidal or multi-step trapezoidal shape which has a size increasing from bottom to top to facilitate demoulding and avoiding stray lights.

A temporary substrate adhesive according to an embodiment includes a silane coupling agent and a photobase generator, but does not include a resin.

A three-dimensional (3D) printed circuit board (PCB) composite structure includes a PCB and a 3D printed composite structure. The printed circuit board includes a plurality of grooves milled in a surface of the PCB, and retaining walls of the 3D printed composite structure are deposited within the plurality of grooves in the surface of the PCB, to improve adhesion of the 3D printed composite structure to the PCB.