Embedded Passive Resistors: Challenges and Opportunities For Conducting Polymers

The need for building an infrastructure of embedded passive technology for electronic devices has become important due to the relentless push toward “smaller”, “smarter”, “cheaper”, and “faster”. Both embedded capacitors and resistors have been developed to fill the material gaps stated in the NEMI roadmap. In this presentation, we would like to introduce the development of embedded resistors by utilizing some conducting polymers along with their packaging technologies such as, integrating and embedding, lamination and chemical etching, screen printing and ink jetting. Those material properties and processing as well as the device performance and challenges will be addressed in the paper.