A method for manufacturing a functionally graded composite material for a printed circuit board (PCB), the method comprising:
- preparing two or more types of mixed powders with different contents of polyarylate (PAR) powder, each mixed powder comprising (i) 30% to 85% by volume of a metal powder comprising a powder made of aluminum or an aluminum alloy and a powder of magnesium and (ii) 15% to 70% by volume of polyarylate (PAR) powder;
- laminating the two or more types of mixed powders to form a functionally graded laminate in which a ratio of the content of the polyarylate (PAR) powder to the content of the metal powder in each of layers stacked in sequence from bottom to the top of the laminate differs;
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- preparing a functionally graded composite material by sintering the functionally graded laminate by pressureless sintering or spark plasma sintering.