Abstract:
An electroless nickel plating is used as a primer for electroplating of copper. Preferably, electroless nickel plating is conducted after the surface of aluminum is subjected to nickel substitution with a nickel salt under a strongly acidic condition (pH: 1 or less). More preferably, the nickel substitution is carried out after the oxide film on the surface of aluminum is removed.
Abstract:
Polyetherimide-metal laminates are formed by etching the surfaces of a polyetherimide web with a glycol-containing etchant followed by electroless nickel or cobalt deposition and then by copper deposition. The glycol-containing etchant can be utilized to form through holes through the web.
Abstract:
Polyimide-metal laminates are formed by etching the surfaces of a polyimide web with a glycol-containing etchant followed by electroless nickel or cobalt deposition and then by copper deposition. The glycol-containing etchant can be utilized to form through holes through the web.
Abstract:
Conductor boards with well adhering conductor tracks are obtained if the substrates, which are clad on both sides with copper foils, have said cladding removed chemically or mechanically, are activated, if necessary sensitized, and are provided with a 0.05-2.0 .mu.m thick layer of nickel, cobalt, manganese, a nickel/iron or nickel/cobalt mixture in an electroless metallizing bath, a 0.5-5.0 .mu.m thick copper layer is applied in a subsequent copper bath and the conductor pattern is then built up by the standard semi-additive methods.
Abstract:
This invention provides a process for producing a printed circuit board characterized by the steps of drilling holes in a copper clad laminate, treating the entire surface of the laminate including the hole-defining inner surfaces with a catalyst, removing the catalyst from the surface of the copper foil of the laminate by mechanically cleaning the surface of the copper foil, depositing electroless nickel only on the hole-defining inner surfaces, forming a pattern with an etching resist, etching away the copper foil except at the pattern area, removing the etching resist, masking with a solder resist the entire surface except at the hole-defining inner surfaces and the lands, and subjecting the hole-defining inner surfaces and the lands to electroless copper plating.
Abstract:
A method of forming intralayer junctions in a multilayer structure comprising alternating metal and dielectric layers comprising forming an auxiliary electrically conductive film on the surface of the dielectric layers to be metal plated by the method of electrolytical deposition of a metal film. The auxiliary film is formed by immersing the multilayer structure into a solution containing ions of a metal, which is more electropositive than the metal of the metal layers. The structure is allowed to stay in this solution until the formation of a continuous electrically conductive film of the metal, whose ions are contained in the solution, over the entire surface to be metal plated. The film has a monolithic structure in the dielectric zones of this surface and a porous structure in the metal zones. Then the structure is treated with a solution selectively reacting with the metal of the metal layers or with the metal of the metal layers and with the porous zones of the continuous electrically conductive film so as to remove from the metal layers the zones of the continuous electrically conductive film having a porous structure.In another embodiment of this method the auxiliary film is formed by immersing the multilayer structure into a solution containing soluble complex salts, metal salts, pH-controlling additives and chalcogenizers. The structure is allowed to stay in this solution until the formation of a continuous electrically conductive film of metal chalcogenides over the entire surface to be metal plated. Then the structure is treated with a solution selectively reacting with the metal of the metal layers or with the metal of the metal layers and with the zones of the film of metal chalcogenides disposed on the end faces of the metal layers so as to remove these zones.
Abstract:
Circuit boards for electronic equipment are produced in which the circuit-forming conductor metal is deposited on a suitably catalyzed and masked resin substrate by an all-additive electroless deposition technique, in which the characterizing feature is the use of a two-stage metal deposition to build up the desired total thickness of metal. In the first stage a fine grained, thin deposit of metal is produced on the substrate which is then water rinsed and immersed in a second metal bath having a sufficiently high rate of deposition to produce the desired total thickness of metal in a commercially practical period of time. Improved adhesion of plated metal to the resin substrate, both before and after thermal shock, is achieved by resort to this two-stage plating procedure.
Abstract:
A thin layer of nickel or a nickel alloy, having a thickness such that it transmits about 30-40% of the visible and ultraviolet light, is deposited on an insulating substrate. A pattern of opaque metal areas is deposited on the thin layer of metal and the thin metal layer is heat-treated in air for a time and at a temperature sufficient to make the thin layer sufficiently transparent, adherent, and durable for the intended purpose.
Abstract:
The method comprises depositing a thin layer of a first metal having a relatively high degree of solubility in a particular etchant on a substrate, this first metal being catalytic to electroless deposition of a second metal to be subsequently deposited, electrolessly depositing on the first metal a pattern of areas of a second metal which has a relatively low degree of solubility in the etchant, and then treating the plated areas with the etchant, so that the first metal is removed where it is not covered by the second metal but the second metal is substantially unaffected.
Abstract:
The invention is a method for making a metal core printed circuit board which includes applying multiple layers of synthetic plastic resin material to a sheet of metal, then treating the surface of the plastic material in such a way as to provide an acceptable bond, followed by applying sundry layers of different metals, first to the plastic surface and then one upon another followed by the imposition of a circuit pattern, the removal of materials from areas intermediate the circuit pattern, and the application of an appropriate overlay of unlike metal to the circuit pattern, thereby to provide a finished circuit board.