Kyocera Avx Components Corporation

Jeff Borgman

Cory Nelson

Marianne Berolini

A semiconductor-based capacitor can include a substrate including a semiconductor material, an oxide layer formed over the substrate, a conductive layer formed over at least a portion of the oxide layer, a plurality of distinct coplanar upper terminals, and a lower terminal. The upper terminals and the lower terminal can be exposed along the top and bottom surfaces of the substrate, respectively, for embedding the capacitor in a substrate such as a circuit board. The semiconductor-based capacitor can be sufficiently miniaturized to be embeddable within a circuit board while providing superior capacitance values without compromising the integrity of the capacitor. For example, each of the upper terminals can have a maximum width and a thickness normal to the maximum width, and a ratio of the width to the thickness can be greater than about 80:1 to prevent physical damage to the capacitor from warping or cracking.

Embeddable semiconductor-based capacitor

A heat sink component can include a body including a thermally conductive material that is electrically non-conductive, a lower conductive layer formed over a bottom surface of the body and electrically connected with the ground plane layer, and an upper conductive layer formed over a top surface of the body. The heat sink component can have a length in an X-direction that is parallel with the top surface of the body and a thickness in a direction perpendicular to the top surface. A ratio of the length to the thickness can be greater than about 7.

Embeddable electrically insulating thermal connector and circuit board including the same

A semiconductor-based capacitor can include a substrate including a semiconductor material, an oxide layer formed on a surface of the substrate, a conductive layer formed over at least a portion of the oxide layer, a plurality of distinct coplanar upper terminals, and at least one lower terminal formed. Each of the upper terminals and the at least one lower terminal can be exposed along the top and bottom surfaces of the substrate, respectively, for embedding the capacitor in a substrate such as a circuit board. The semiconductor-based capacitor can be sufficiently miniaturized to be embeddable within a circuit board while providing superior capacitance values. For example, a ratio of the length to the width of the substrate can be in a range from about 3:1 to about 1:3 and an area of the substrate can be less than about 3 mm.

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Jeff Borgman