Abstract:
An electronic component device includes a printed wiring board having a side surface terminal portion formed of a recessed groove, filler, and plating conductor. The recessed groove is formed in a side surface, or a corner adjacent to the side surface, of a board and extending from an upper surface to a lower surface. The filler fills the groove and has a plating catalytic function. The plating conductor covers an exposed surface of the filler. A method of manufacturing the electronic component device is also disclosed.
Abstract:
A process for forming a double-sided or multi-layered circuit structure entailing the use of a fill material that forms a conductive connection between the layers of the circuit structure and photodefinable resins that form permanent dielectric layers and plateable surfaces of the circuit structure. The method includes forming a through-hole in a substrate, and then filling the through-hole with the fill material containing a metal that is catalytic to electroless copper. The fill material forms an electrical connection having oppositely-disposed connection surfaces that are coextensive with opposite surfaces of the substrate. A first photodefinable dielectric layer is then formed on each surface of the substrate, including the connection surfaces, and openings are photoimaged and developed in the dielectric layers to expose a portion of each connection surface. A second dielectric layer is then formed over each of the first dielectric layers and the exposed portions of the connection surfaces, with an opening being formed in each of the second dielectric layers to re-expose the portions of the connection surfaces and contiguous surface portions of the first dielectric layers. The exposed surface portions of the first dielectric layers and the exposed portions of the connection surfaces are then electrolessly plated with copper to form conductor traces on each side of the substrate. As a result, the traces electrically contact the connection surfaces, such that traces on opposite sides of the circuit structure are interconnected with the connection formed by the fill material in the through-hole.
Abstract:
A base material for printed wiring boards is formed by laminating together layers of prepregs of woven cloth impregnated with a thermosetting polymeric resin varnish. The varnish has an inorganic filler which is present in an amount sufficient to provide the base material with an average coefficient of thermal expansion along its Z-axis between 30.degree. C. and 270.degree. C. which is equal to or less than the coefficient of thermal expansion of copper from 30.degree. C. to 270.degree. C. plus the maximum elongation at 270.degree. C. of copper suitable for forming a conductive pattern on hole walls of printed wiring boards. Printed wiring boards manufactured on the base material by additive or subtractive processes are resistant to failure from thermal stress or thermal cycling.
Abstract:
A unique process metallizes a substrate surface using a reducing agent including a borohydride to reduce, in a starved reaction, metal oxide particles (300) substantially uniformly distributed and at a controlled concentration in a particle-filled resin (204) to produce catalytic island areas (301). The catalytic island areas (301) formed have a surface resistivity greater than 10.sup.6 ohms per square. These catalytic island areas (301) are then electrolessly metallized to a predetermined thickness, such that adjacent catalytic island areas (301) are interconnected and form metallic features, such as pads, vias (213), and conductors (210, 211 and 212). The starved reaction limits the reduction of metal oxide particles (300) to catalytic island areas (301) and prevents migration of reduced metal beyond each of the exposed surfaces of particle-filled resin (204) which are to be metallized.
Abstract:
An aromatic polyimide film having a metallic surface comprises a substrate film of an aromatic polyimide containing essentially no inorganic particle, an aromatic polyimide resin layer containing non-conductive metal oxide particles dispersed therein and a metal layer, superposed in order. A portion of the non-conductive metal oxide particles located in the vicinity of the surface of the aromatic polyimide resin layer is reduced into metal so that the surface of the resin layer is made electroconductive.
Abstract:
Multilayer printed circuit boards are fabricated by preparing a first layer in conventional manner by forming a resist image on a copper clad substrate, etching away unwanted copper, removing the resist from the circuit pattern and optionally applying a dielectric mask such as conventional solder mask to selected portions of the circuit pattern. A second layer, and optionally one or more subsequent layers, are fabricated by providing an image of a second circuit pattern in a predetermined location on said first layer, the image being formed using a suspension of cuprous oxide in a curable resin material. The image is cured at least partially and subjected to chemical reduction to convert at least a portion of the cuprous oxide to metallic copper such that the unreduced cuprous oxide in resin serves as a dielectric layer. The image is then electrolessly plated with copper to build up the circuit pattern and the latter is selectively coated with a dielectric mask before repeating the cycle to build up one or more additional layers. Solder can be applied to selected areas of any of said printed circuit layers at any appropriate time during fabrication.The above method of fabrication has advantages of economy of time, materials and labor as compared with methods hitherto employed to prepare multilayer boards in which a plurality of single boards are fabricated individually and then assembled as a sandwich or laminate by application of heat and pressure.
Abstract:
This invention provides a composition comprising about 15 to about 75% by weight of a thermosetting or ultraviolet-curable resin, about 24.5 to about 84.5% by weight of finely divided heat-resistant inorganic substance and about 0.5 to about 20% by weight of a finely divided palladium catalyst. This composition is the solvent-free type and useful for forming an electroconductive metal coating on an electrically nonconductive base material by chemical plating.
Abstract:
Improved catalytic fillers result from the use of hydrazine to render reducible metal salts absorbed on filler material surfaces catalytic to the deposition of electroless metal. Use of such catalytic fillers in forming insulated articles in which holes are made lead to improved electroless metallization of the barrels of such holes.
Abstract:
A method and composition of matter useful for rendering an insulating material, self-catalytic to deposition of electroless metal from solutions thereof are shown. A base exchangeable clay material such as hectorite is base exchanged with a source of cations of a metal selected from Group I-B and VIII of the Periodic Table of Elements, preferably nickel or copper, and thereafter, the cation exchanged hectorite is heated under reducing conditions. This thermal treatment activates the exchanged hectorite as a catalyst to induce metal deposition in electroless plating baths. Without such a treatment the exchanged hectorite is not catalytic. The structure of the hectorite is altered by the thermal treatment as it no longer swells or gels when immersed in water. In addition the mechanical strength of the material is increased by the ''''sintering like'''' treatment. The modified base exchanged material can be incorporated or coated on insulating materials to provide the exterior or interior surfaces thereof with a catalytic sensitivity to deposition of electroless metal. The methods and compositions are useful in processes for manufacture of printed circuitry on substrates such as films, glass reinforced laminates, tapes, and boards. Methods of molding printed circuit substrates in desired geometrical form with vias located in predetermined pattern are disclosed along with chemical and mechanical methods of etching the surface of resin to expose base exchanged mineral that serves as the catalyst for electroless plating.
Abstract:
This invention provides a prefabricated electric wire assembly board which comprises an insulating base, a preformed, metal conductor bonded to the base, an aperture in the base intersecting the conductor such that at least one end of the conductor is exposed at the wall surrounding the aperture, and a deposit of metal on the wall which contacts and forms an integral bond with the end of the conductor.