Patent ID: 7407415

Claim:
A method for fabricating a DIMM connector, comprising: assembling a plurality of pins adapted for coupling to circuit components, wherein the pins provide for communicating input and output signals with the circuit components; mixing high dielectric constant ceramic particles comprising a one of a mono-modal distribution of particle sizes, a bi-modal distribution of particle sizes and a multi-modal distribution of particle sizes having a diameter ranging from in the nanometers to in the micrometers and composite fibers within material for jacketing at least a portion of each of the pins in the plurality; wherein a quantity of the ceramic particles is adjusted to control a dielectric constant for a housing of the connector, according to a formula ɛ = [ ɛ 1 1 / 3 + v 2 ⁡ ( ɛ 2 1 / 3 - ɛ 1 1 / 3 ) ] 3 where ∈ represents a dielectric constant for the connector housing ∈ 1 represents a dielectric constant of the material, ∈ 2 represents a dielectric constant of the ceramic particles; and ν 2 represents a volume fraction of the ceramic particles in the material; and, jacketing circuit components and the at least a portion of pins for the DIMM connector with the mix of particles and material to form the connector housing.