Abstract:
THE RATE OF PLATING COPPER ONTO AN ACTIVE METALLIC SURFACE OF A SUBSTRATE FROM AN ELECTROLESS COPPER PLATING SOLUTION IS ENHANCED BY ADDING TO THE PLATING SOLUTION AN IONIC COMPOUND CONSISTING OF EITHER AN ACETATE, A NITRATE, AN OXALATE, A LACTATE, A CHLORIDE, A TARTRATE, A FORMATE, A PHTHALAE, A TUNGSTATE, A MOLYBDATE, A CHLORATE, A PERCHLORATE, A CITRATE, A MOLONATE, OR MIXTURES THEREOF.
Abstract:
The method comprises depositing a thin layer of a first metal having a relatively high degree of solubility in a particular etchant over both plated areas (if a previously deposited pattern is being repaired) and unplated areas 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 either an overall pattern of areas of a second metal which has a relatively low degree of solubility in the etchant or a pattern limited to parts of a previously deposited pattern that were missing or incompletely formed, and then treating the plated areas with the etchant, where desired, so that the first metal is removed where it is not covered by the second metal but the second metal is substantially unaffected.
Abstract:
A colloidal solution of a catalytic metal is prepared by admixing an acid-soluble salt of the metal, hydrochloric acid, a soluble stannous salt present in excess of the amount necessary to reduce the metal salt to colloidal metal, and a quantity of stannic chloride that has been separately aged. A substrate surface upon which metal is to be deposited is treated with the catalytic colloidal solution. The catalyzed surface is then subjected to an electroless plating bath.
Abstract:
A METHOD COMPRISING ELECTROLESSLY DEPOSITING A SEMITRANSPARENT FILM WHICH IS PREDOMINANTLY CUPROUS OXIDE OM A TRANSPARENT SUBSTRATE AND DELINEATING A PATTERN IN THE FILM BY ETCHING.
Abstract:
ELECTROLESS DEPOSITION OF COBALT FROM AN AQUEOUS ALKALINE BATH ON A PALLADIUM ACTIVATED SUBSTRATE. BATH CONTAINS HYPOPHOSPHITE AS REDUCING AGENT, LINEAR POLYPHOSPHATE ANION AND AMMONIUM HYDROXIDE AS COMPLEXING AGENTS AND SMALL CONTROLLED AMOUNTS OF NICKEL ION. COBALT WILL ALSO DEPOSIT WITHOUT IONS BEING IN BATH BY PROVIDING NICKEL ON SUBSTRATE.
Abstract:
1342636 Electroless plating R C A CORPORATION 5 May 1971 [5 May 1970] 13344/71 Heading C7F [Also in Division H1] A method of producing a luminescent screen structure for an image reproducer (e.g. a c.r.t.) comprising light emitting and light absorbing areas on a support surface 23, comprises coating the support surface with a pattern of deposits comprising film-forming binder material and phosphor particle electrolessly plating only the areas between the deposits with at least one of Ni, Co and Cu, and optionally also including Fe, Mn or W, and converting the plated metal to an adherent dark coloured and light absorbing compound material. Surface 23 may be coated with an initiator by cleaning and washing with a 10% aqueous solution of fluoroboric acid to leach and render hydrophilic, rinsed with an aqueous acidic stannous chloride solution whereby stannousions are absorbed, rinsed with Pd salt solution, Pd ions replacing stannous ions producing discontinuous monolayer 25. Green, blue, red phosphors 27, 29, 31 are photographically offset or screen printed, the phosphor being mixed with the binder or applied after the binder is printed. Plating may use Co So 4 7H 2 O, sodium pyrophosphate and conc. ammonium hydroxide, pH being 10 to 10-5 and 90 to 100F temperature producing 0.005mn thickness, followed by aluminizing and baking at 440C in air to oxidize the Co to a black material of one or more oxides and removing organic material. The conversion to a dark coloured material may be by oxidizing or sulfurizing or otherwise converting Ni and Co from black oxides and sulfides and conversion may be by baking in a gas ambient or by a reaction in a liquid medium. In plating, both temperatures of 90 to 100F reduce non-uniformities, a thin layer of an additional promoter, e.g. heat treated tin oxide, leached or hydrated suface, beneath the initiation reduces peeling, phosphor dot porosity may be reduced by baking at 150C or by incorporating an organic filler (e.g. an acrylate copolymer) to promote the hydrophobic character. The film forming binder used with the phosphor reduces Co metal ion poisoning. Reference is made to shadow mask colour TV tube with a light absorbing screen matrix.