Patent ID: 7304369

Claim:
An integrated circuit device, comprising: a plurality of sets of one or more conductive layers, each of the plurality of sets of one or more conductive layers at different respective voltage potentials and each of the one or more conductive layers corresponding to each of the respective sets of one or more conductive layers at the respective voltage potential of its respective set; a set of dielectric layers interleaved between each of the plurality of conductive layers; a wideband signal absorption mechanism that operates to dampen laterally flowing electromagnetic (EM) waves between at least two of the plurality of conductive layers, the signal absorption mechanism comprising at least one of addition, removal, or change in composition or shape, of material on or in at least one of the at least two of the plurality of conductive layers or at least one of the dielectric layers interleaved between the at least two of the plurality of conductive layers, the signal absorption mechanism characterized by having a finite resistive profile greater than a resistive profile of the at least two conductive layers; and an electronic component having a first terminal coupled to a first conductive layer of the plurality of conductive layers and a second terminal coupled to second conductive layer of the plurality of conductive layers.