The technology disclosed relates to high utilization of donor material in a writing process using Laser-Induced Forward Transfer. Specifically, the technology relates to reusing, or recycling, unused donor material by recoating target substrates with donor material after a writing process is performed with the target substrate. Further, the technology relates to target substrates including a pattern of discrete separated dots to be individually ejected from the target substrate using LIFT.

Provided is a method for populating printed circuit boards, which includes the steps of registering jobs in each case relating to the population of a number of printed circuit boards of a printed circuit board type with components of predetermined component types, assigning printed circuit board types of the registered jobs to a predetermined number of fixed set-up families, optimizing the assignment in such a way that a characteristic number relating to all the pick-and-place lines of the pick-and-place system is optimized as far as possible, and populating the printed circuit boards on one of the pick-and-place lines by using one of the fixed set-ups.

The present application provides an asymmetric board, which includes the first master board, the second master board, and the insulating dielectric layer sandwiched between the first master board and the second master board, and the depth control grooves are disposed in the connection position between the units on the asymmetric board, and located on the surface of the second master board and extending a toward the side of the first master board, the depth control grooves provide space for the expansion of the second master board, reduce the stress of the units, and reduce the warping of the second master board. When the number of the depth control grooves in the first direction and/or the second direction is greater than 0, the depths of the depth control grooves increase by X from a center to an edge of the asymmetric board, and the X is greater than or equal to 0.

Disclosed herein are asymmetric cored integrated circuit (IC) package supports, and related devices and methods. For example, in some embodiments, an IC package support may include a core region having a first face and an opposing second face, a first buildup region at the first face of the core region, and a second buildup region at the second face of the core region. A thickness of the first buildup region may be different than a thickness of the second buildup region. In some embodiments, an inductor may be included in the core region.

Some features pertain to a substrate that includes a first portion of the substrate including a first plurality of metal layers, a second portion of the substrate including a second plurality of metal layers, and a plurality of insulating layers configured to separate the first plurality of metal layers and the second plurality of metal layers. A first plurality of posts and a plurality of interconnects are coupled together such that the first plurality of posts and the plurality of interconnects couple the first portion of the substrate to the second portion of the substrate.

A substrate processing device according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a disk part disposed in a chamber in which a heating means is provided, and a pocket part installed on one surface of the disk part and on which a substrate is seated. A heat hole through which heat generated by the heating means passes may be formed on an installation surface of the disk part on which the pocket part is installed, or a gear hole through which the heat of the heating means passes may be formed in a pocket gear facing the disk part.

The present application provides an asymmetric board, which includes the first master board, the second master board, and the insulating dielectric layer sandwiched between the first master board and the second master board, and the depth control grooves are disposed in the connection position between the units on the asymmetric board, and located on the surface of the second master board and extending a toward the side of the first master board, the depth control grooves provide space for the expansion of the second master board, reduce the stress of the units, and reduce the warping of the second master board. When the number of the depth control grooves in the first direction and/or the second direction is greater than 0, the depths of the depth control grooves increase by X from a center to an edge of the asymmetric board, and the X is greater than or equal to 0.

A method for manufacturing a flexible circuit board is provided. The method for manufacturing a flexible circuit board includes the following steps: providing a carrier substrate, forming a flexible substrate on the carrier substrate, and forming a plurality of circuit strings on the flexible substrate. A flexible circuit board manufactured by the above method is also provided.

The present disclosure provides a substrate motherboard including: a first substrate base, a first conductive pattern layer, at least one first insulating layer and a second conductive pattern layer which are sequentially arranged. The first conductive pattern layer includes a plurality of signal lines in the active region. The second conductive pattern layer includes a plurality of connection terminals in the active region, and the plurality of connection terminals are electrically coupled to corresponding signal lines in the plurality of signal lines. The substrate motherboard further includes a plurality of leading-out wires and a plurality of detection terminals in the non-active region, first ends of the plurality of leading-out wires are electrically coupled to corresponding connection terminals and extending to the non-active region to be electrically coupled to corresponding detection terminals through second ends thereof.

Embodiments are generally directed to module installation on printed circuit boards with embedded trace technology. An embodiment of a printed circuit board includes one or more layers including a top layer; multiple embedded traces that are contained in an area of a surface of a first layer of the one or more layers of the printed circuit board; and a first module, the first module being installed on the plurality of printed traces in the area.