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Embedding Components, Part 1
June 30, 2017 | Vern Solberg, ConsultantEstimated reading time: 1 minute
The printed circuit has traditionally served as the platform for mounting and interconnecting active and passive components on the outer surfaces. Companies attempting to improve functionality and minimize space are now considering embedding a broad range of these components within the circuit structure. Both uncased active and passive component elements are candidates for embedding but the decision to embed components within the multilayer circuit structure must be made early in the design process.
Some components are easy candidates for integrating into the substrate while others may involve more complex processes and will be difficult to rationalize. Processes have evolved for embedding and interconnecting a range of common passive components: resistor, capacitor and inductor elements. Embedding formed resistor elements, however, is the most mature and economical process to implement. A formed resistor will have two copper lands with resistance material applied between the lands.
The shape of the resistance material can be a simple rectangle, or a shape designed to maximize resistor element length while minimizing area. In each case, the resistance material must overlap the copper lands.
Formed resistor elements may be furnished as a printed thick-film composition or by employing a chemically etched thin-film process.
- Thick-film resistor materials are formulated to furnish a wide range of primary values. The resistor formulations are based on carbon-filled epoxy chemistry that enables screen printing the elements directly onto pre-patterned terminations on a designated circuit board layer followed by curing the product at temperatures in the range of 150°C. This carbon-filled epoxy thick film (TF) chemistry has been successfully used for a broad number of commercial applications. The process is generally employed where tolerances are less critical. Applications are varied and range from simple discrete potentiometers to pull-up and pull-down resistors.
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