Patent ID: 8173260

Claim:
An anisotropic conductive adhesive connecting at least two components which selectively conducts electricity, through the adhesive, along a compression axis and does not substantially conduct electricity between adjacent regions of the components, embodying an electronic circuit, comprising: (a) an electrically insulating adhesive carrier; (b) a plurality of fine interconnect particles suspended in said electrically insulating adhesive carrier, each of said fine interconnect particles having an outer surface; and (c) a plurality of electrically and thermally conductive nano-structures, forming a coating on at least a portion of said outer surface of said fine interconnect particles, said coating being configured to provide increased thermal conductivity of the anisotropic conductive adhesive, with respect to a corresponding particle without said nano-structures, at least two pairs of electrically conductive elements provided within a contiguous portion of said anisotropic conductive adhesive, each pair separated by a respective gap, each of said pairs of electrically conductive elements defining, after compression of the anisotropic conductive adhesive between the gap, meshing of the nanostructures of adjacent interconnect particles subject to the compression, and curing of said electrically insulating adhesive carrier to support the electrically conductive elements and exclude moisture from the gap, a respective separate electrical circuit electrically and thermally conducting across said gap, and being substantially electrically insulated from other pairs of electrically conductive elements.