Article: Designing with ceramic thick-film embedded passives: bridging the gaps.

Embedded passives (i.e., resistors and capacitors built right into the PCB substrate) will be the next pivotal technology for the PCB industry. But PCB manufacturers and designers must first bridge the gaps between the design and part manufacturing, and between the design and available CAD tools. Here's how.

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Materials and Properties

Two ceramic thick-film materials were recently developed by DuPont Microcircuit Materials, partially under a NIST funded consortium known as the AEPT (Advanced Embedded Passive Technology). The materials and their properties have been discussed at length in the last several years (see Ref. 1, ...

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