Patent ID: 7378337

Claim:
A method of fabricating passive electronic components that are formed from a substrate having opposed first and second major surfaces and include electrically conductive interconnects, comprising: applying laser-removable coatings to at least one of the opposed first and second major surfaces of the substrate; directing for incidence on the substrate a laser beam having a spot size and an energy distribution sufficient to remove the laser-removable coating from multiple selected regions of at least one of the first and second major surfaces to which the laser-removable coating was applied; aligning and imparting relative motion between the laser beam and each of the multiple selected regions to remove sufficient amounts of the laser-removable coatings to expose the multiple selected regions; breaking the substrate to form multiple passive electronic components, each having side margins between the first and second major surfaces; and applying an electrically conductive material along the side margins of the passive electronic components to form electrically conductive interconnects between portions of the side margins spatially aligned with the multiple selected regions.