An encapsulant composition. The encapsulant composition includes a resin
material consisting of epoxy or cyanate ester resins, from about 1.0% by
weight to about 5% by weight of the composition of a flexibilizing agent
including a flexibilizer containing functional groups capable of reaction
with the epoxy or cyanate ester resin during thermally induced curing, a
filler material including substantially spherical or spheroidal particles
such that each particle has a diameter less than about 41 microns, and a
thermoplastic other than the flexibilizer. The thermoplastic is separated
from the cured epoxy or cyanate ester resin. The thermoplastic includes a
poly(arylene)ether. The flexibilizer includes
bis(2,3-epoxy-2-methylpropyl)ether.