A multilayer board includes thermoplastic resin layers laminated together, a first-class conductor pattern including a conductor foil on a first surface of one of the thermoplastic resin layers, a second-class conductor pattern in contact with a second surface of the one of the thermoplastic resin layers, and an interlayer connection conductor in the one of the thermoplastic resin layers and including a first end surface connected to the first-class conductor pattern and a second end surface connected to a second-class conductor pattern. The second-class conductor pattern and the first interlayer connection conductor include a conductor of a single material including a resin, or a conductor of a single material including a metal with a melting point lower than that of the conductor foil.

A method for manufacturing a circuit board structure with a waveguide is provided. The method includes: providing a first substrate unit, a second substrate unit, a third substrate unit, and two adhesive layers, the first substrate unit including a first dielectric layer and a first conductive layer, the first conductive layer including a first shielding area and two first artificial magnetic conductor areas disposed on two sides of the first shielding area; the second substrate unit including a second dielectric layer and a second conductive layer, the second conductive layer including a second shielding area; the third substrate unit defining a first slot, and the adhesive layer defining a second slot; stacking the first substrate unit, one of the adhesive layers, the third substrate unit, another one of the adhesive layers, and the second substrate unit in that order; pressing the intermediate body.

A substrate for a printed wiring board includes a base layer, and a copper foil directly or indirectly stacked on at least a part of one or both surfaces of the base layer. The base layer includes a matrix containing a fluororesin as a main component and one or more reinforcing material layers included in the matrix, and a ratio B/A is 0.003 to 0.37, where A is an average thickness of the base layer, and B is an average distance between a surface of the copper foil facing the matrix and a surface of a reinforcing material layer closest to the surface of the copper foil facing the copper foil.

An object of the present invention is to provide a laminated sheet for a metal-clad laminate and a method of manufacturing the same, the laminated sheet including: a substrate that includes a liquid crystal polymer or a fluoropolymer; and an adhesive layer, in which adhesiveness with a metal layer formed on the adhesive layer is excellent. Another object of the present invention is to provide a metal-clad laminate and a method of manufacturing the same.

A laminated sheet for a metal-clad laminate includes: a substrate that includes a liquid crystal polymer or a fluoropolymer; an inorganic oxide layer; and an adhesive layer, in which the substrate, the inorganic oxide layer, and the adhesive layer are laminated in this order.

A component carrier includes a stack with an electrically conductive layer structure and an electrically insulating layer structure. The electrically conductive layer structure having a first plating structure and a pillar. The pillar has a seed layer portion on the first plating structure and a second plating structure on the seed layer portion. A method of manufacturing such a component carrier and an arrangement including such a component carrier are also disclosed.

A resin multilayer substrate includes a multilayer body including resin base-material layers laminated in a thickness direction and a circuit conductor therein, an end-surface ground conductor provided directly on each end surface of the multilayer body in the thickness direction, an adhesion layer on a side surface of the multilayer body, and a side-surface ground conductor on the adhesion layer. The end-surface and side-surface ground conductors are made of a ground conductor material with a coefficient of thermal expansion whose difference from a coefficient of thermal expansion of the resin base-material layers in a plane direction is smaller than a difference from a coefficient of thermal expansion of the resin base-material layers in the thickness direction. The adhesion layer is made of a material with higher adhesiveness to the side surface of the multilayer body than adhesiveness of the ground conductor material.

A multilayer substrate includes a multilayer body in which insulating layers are laminated in a laminating direction, a front electrode that is provided on a front surface side of a first insulating layer which is positioned on a front surface side of the multilayer body among the insulating layers, a first internal electrode that is provided on an opposite side to the front electrode with the first insulating layer interposed therebetween, and a first interlayer connection conductor that electrically connects the front electrode and the first internal electrode with each other. The first interlayer connection conductor includes a front side connection surface that is electrically connected with the front electrode and a back side connection surface that is electrically connected with the first internal electrode.

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.

Forming, in a printed-wiring board, a via sufficiently filled without residual smear, for use in an insulating layer and the size of the via to be formed. A via of a printed-wiring board comprises a first filling portion which fills at least a center portion of a hole, and a second filling portion which fills a region of the hole that is not filled with the first filling portion. An interface which exists between the second and first filling portions, or an interface which exists between the second filling portion and an insulating layer and the first filling portion has the shape of a truncated cone comprising a tapered surface which is inclined to become thinner from a first surface toward a second surface, and an upper base surface which is positioned in parallel to the second surface and closer to the first surface than to the second surface.

A method of manufacturing a metal-clad laminate and uses of the same are provided. The method comprises the following steps: (a) impregnating a reinforcement material with a first fluoropolymer solution, and drying the impregnated reinforcement material under a first temperature to obtain a first prepreg; (b) impregnating the first prepreg with a second fluoropolymer solution, and drying the impregnated first prepreg under a second temperature to obtain a second prepreg; and (c) laminating the second prepreg and a metal-clad to obtain a metal-clad laminate, wherein the first fluoropolymer solution has a first fluoropolymer, the second fluoropolymer solution has a second fluoropolymer, and the first fluoropolymer and the second fluoropolymer are different.