Rogers Corporation

James S Rivers

William P Harper

Richard T Traskos

Carlos L Barton

Jane L Cercena

Samuel Gazit

John A Olenick

Lynn E Burdick

Thomas S Kneeland

W David Smith

Jeffrey B Ott

Daniel J Navarro

Mark F Sylvester

Kathleen R Olenick

Angela M Kneeland

Scott E Derosier

Curtis H Kempton

Robert B Huntington

In accordance with the present invention, an MCM substrate product is manufactured in an additive process using multiple layers of a fluoropolymer composite material and copper. The copper layers are plated, and the fluoropolymer composite layers are laminated. A seeding process promotes reliable bonding between the fluoropolymer composite material and the plated copper. The use of the filled fluoropolymeric composite eliminates the need for a barrier metal layer between the insulation and the conductors. The MCM substrate device of the present invention may have multiple metal layers and multiple dielectric layers; four or five, or more, of each in a single structure would be easily achieved and is typical. The structure would include lead lines in separate mutually orthogonal planes (sometimes referred to as 'x' and 'y' lead lines) sandwiched between ground and power voltage planes of copper. The MCM substrate device of the present invention also has solid copper vias, which may be used either as electrical interconnection between layers of the MCM substrate and/or to the I/C's to be packaged in the module, or as thermal vias for heat conduction for thermal management. The manufacturing process of the present invention makes it possible to start or stop any via in any layer of the device.

Method of manufacture multichip module substrate

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Ballouville, CT, United States of America

James S Rivers