Abstract:
An improved method for enhancing the ductility of electroless metal deposits is provided in which an electroless metal bath contains an extraneous ion which has a preferential capacity for being coulombically adsorbed at the outer layer of an electric double layer present on an interface in contact with such bath on which said metal is electrolessly depositing, such ion being present in an amount sufficient to reduce the inclusion of hydrogen in the electrolessly deposited metal.
Abstract:
This invention relates to metallizing insulating base materials and more particularly to rendering insulating materials sensitive to electroless metal deposition and then depositing electroless metal on the sensitized material, and to the resulting new and improved metallized articles, including printed circuit boards.
Abstract:
1,145,578. Printed circuits. PHOTOCIRCUITS CORP. 4 May, 1967 [6 May, 1966], No. 20684/67. Heading H1R. [Also in Division C7] Portions of an insulating substrate, such as a plastics material, of which many suitable examples are listed, are sensitized in the form of a desired printed circuit form, e.g. by treatment with an acidic aqueous solution of stannous chloride followed by a dilute acid aqueous solution of Pd chloride, or by treatment with a single acidic solution containing stannous chloride and a precious metal chloride such as Pd chloride. Cu or other metal is then deposited on one or more surfaces of the substrate, and on the walls of holes through it, by electroless deposition from a solution on to the sensitized parts of the substrate, said solution including a compound containing a cyanide radical complexed with a metal from Group VIII of the Periodic Table.
Abstract:
An improved electroless metal deposition solution is provided which comprises, in combination: an ion of a metal whose electroless metal deposition is desired; a complexing agent for said ion; a reducing agent for said ion; a pH regulator; and a small effective amount of an extraneous ion which has a potential dependent capacity for inner double layer absorption at a surface in contact with the solution on which said metal is electrolessly depositing. In addition, improved methods for electrolessly depositing metal, as well as enhancing the ductility of electroless metal deposits are provided.
Abstract:
IMPROVED ELECTROLESS GOLD PLATING BATHS ARE PROVIDED BY FORMULATING IN AQUEOUS ALKALINE MEDIA, A WATER SOLUBLE GOLD SALT; A COMPLEXING AGENT FOR GOLD, A WATER SOLUBLE BOROHYDRIDE OR AMINE BORANE REDUCING AGENT FOR GOLD, AND A SMALL EFFECTIVE STABILIZING AMOUNT OF A CYANIDE COMPOUND IN AN AMOUNT OF BETWEEN ABOUT 5 MICROGRAMS AND 500 MILLIGRAMS.