A circuit board element includes a glass substrate, a first dielectric layer, and a first patterned metal layer. The glass substrate has an edge. The first dielectric layer is disposed on the glass substrate and has a central region and an edge region. The edge region is in contact with the edge of the glass substrate, and the thickness of the central region is greater than the thickness of the edge region. The first patterned metal layer is disposed on the glass substrate and in the central region of the first dielectric layer.

A printed circuit board (PCB) having an engineered thermal path and a method of manufacturing are disclosed herein. In one aspect, the PCB includes complementary cavities formed on opposite sides of the PCB. The complementary cavities are in a thermal communication and/or an electrical communication to form the engineered thermal path and each cavity is filled with a thermally conductive material to provide a thermal pathway for circuits and components of the PCB. The method of manufacturing may further include drilling and/or milling each cavity, panel plating the cavities and filling the cavities with a suitable filling material.

A printed circuit board for mounting electrical components thereupon include: a first side; a second side opposite the first side; electrical connection points disposed on the surface of an exterior edge of the printed circuit board; and wherein the exterior edge of the printed circuit board is between the first side and the second side. Further a method of manufacturing a printed circuit board for mounting electrical components thereupon includes the steps of disposing interconnect structures within the printed circuit board adjacent to at least one edge of the printed circuit board; and removing material from the printed circuit board edge to expose the interconnect structures such that the exposed interconnect structures correspond to a component connection footprint.

An integrated circuit chip carrier includes a wall surrounding a cavity. The wall includes one or more levels where each level is formed from a layer of a resin around a block. The block is made of a material different from the resin. The block is removed to open the cavity.

A printed circuit board includes a plurality of layers including attachment layers and routing layers; and via patterns formed in the plurality of layers, each of the via patterns including first and second signal vias forming a differential signal pair, the first and second signal vias extending through at least the attachment layers; ground vias extending through at least the attachment layers, the ground vias including ground conductors; and shadow vias located adjacent to each of the first and second signal vias, wherein the shadow vias are free of conductive material in the attachment layers. The printed circuit board may further include slot vias extending through the attachment layers and located between via patterns.

A display device includes a substrate including a display area and a non-display area adjacent to the display area, lower pads disposed in the non-display area of the substrate and spaced apart from each other, upper pads disposed on the lower pads and spaced apart from each other, an anisotropic conductive film disposed between the lower pads and the upper pads, and a circuit film disposed on the upper pads, the circuit film including first lower holes disposed between the upper pads in a plan view, and first upper holes connected to the first lower holes and having radiuses larger than radiuses of the first lower holes. The first upper holes form first openings on an upper surface of the circuit film. A method of manufacturing the display device is provided.

A radio-frequency module includes a mounting board, a first electronic component, and a second electronic component. The second electronic component is lower in height than the first electronic component. The mounting board includes dielectric layers, conductive layers, and via-conductors. In the mounting board, the dielectric layers and the conductive layers are stacked in the thickness direction of the mounting board. The mounting board has a first region and a second region. The first region overlaps the first electronic component and extends from a first major surface to a second major surface. The second region overlaps the second electronic component and extends from the first major surface to the second major surface. In the mounting board, the conductive layers in the first region are fewer than the conductive layers in the second region. In the mounting board, the first region is thinner than the second region.

The present application relates to a circuit board assembly, a photosensitive assembly, a camera module, and preparation methods for the circuit board assembly and the photosensitive assembly. The photosensitive assembly includes a circuit board and a photosensitive chip. The circuit board includes a circuit board main body, a through hole formed through the circuit board main body, a set of circuit board electrical connecting terminals disposed on the lower surface of the circuit board main body, a conducting medium disposed on the circuit board electrical connecting terminals, and a non-conducting adhesive covering the conducting medium. The photosensitive chip includes chip electrical connecting terminals disposed in a non-photosensitive area. The chip electrical connecting terminals of the photosensitive chip is in contact with the conducting medium to be electrically connected to the circuit board electrical connecting terminals, and the photosensitive chip is bonded to the lower surface of the circuit board via the non-conducting adhesive, so that the photosensitive chip is electrically connected to the circuit board. In this way, the photosensitive chip is stably electrically connected to the circuit board with relatively low costs and relatively low process difficulty.

A semi-flexible component carrier includes a stack having at least one electrically conductive layer structure and at least one electrically insulating layer structure. The layer structures are stacked on top of each other in a stacking direction s. A recess extends from a first main surface of the stack into the stack and extends only partially into one of the at least one electrically insulating layer structure so that an electrically insulating layer structure having a stepped portion is formed. The stepped portion provides a flexible region of the stack with respect to a rigid region of the stack.

A printed circuit board includes a plurality of layers including attachment layers and routing layers; and columns of via patterns formed in the plurality of layers, wherein via patterns in adjacent columns are offset in a direction of the columns, each of the via patterns comprising: first and second signal vias forming a differential signal pair, the first and second signal vias extending through at least the attachment layers; and at least one conductive shadow via located between the first and second signal vias of the differential pair. In some embodiments, at least one conductive shadow via is electrically connected to a conductive surface film.