Abstract:
An insulating layer (5) and a conductive seed layer (6) are applied to a substrate (1) in a simple process. A photo resist with palladium chloride are provided in a bath for electrophoretic deposition onto the substrate. The photo resist is an insulator and the palladium chloride is a catalyst. The layer is heated with UV to cure it. The layer is plasma etched to expose more of the palladium chloride, which acts as a catalyst for electrodes plating of the conductive seed layer. A thicker conductive layer (7) is then electroplated onto the seed layer. These steps may be repeated for successive insulating and/or conductive layers.
Abstract:
Methods of improving the adhesion of metal layers to a substrate, such as an optical substrate, are provided. Such methods employ a layer of an adhesion promoting composition including a plating catalyst on the substrate before metal deposition. Also provided are devices made by such processes.
Abstract:
Laminates for electronic components are produced by applying a polyimide resin precursor solution containing a palladium compound on a polyimide substrate, drying the resulting coating to form a polyimide resin precursor layer, irradiating this layer with ultraviolet rays in the presence of a hydrogen donor to form nuclei for primer plating, forming a metal primer layer by electroless plating, and converting the polyimide resin precursor layer into a polyimide resin layer through imidation by heating either after or before the formation of a surface plating layer. The invention provides laminates for electronic components which are extremely improved in adhesion to metal layers without impairing the characteristics inherent in the substrate and are excellent in insulating properties, and a polyimide resin precursor resin solution to be used in the production of the laminates.
Abstract:
The invention concerns a method for making an multilevel interconnection circuitry comprising conductor tracks and micro-vias. The method for producing at least one of the levels comprises the following steps: a) on a substrate including at its surface metallizable and/or potentially metallizable parts (102), forming a first insulating photosensitive resin layer (103) comprising a compound capable of inducing subsequent metallization; b) exposing and revealing the first layer (103) so as to selectively uncover the metallizable and/or potentially metallizable parts (102) of the substrate; c) forming, by metallization, metal conductor tracks (111) and micro-vias (110) at the surface of the first insulating photosensitive resin layer (113) and of the parts uncovered during step b), by providing a second photosensitive resin layer (105) forming a selective protection, the second photosensitive resin layer (105) being eliminated.
Abstract:
A composite material and a method for making same are disclosed. A composite article including an electrically and/or thermally insulating substrate and protective layers on each side thereof is particularly disclosed. Said material includes protective layers consisting of fibres of a heat-stable material flocked onto the insulating substrate, and a heat-stable coating resin. The resulting protective layer has improved protective properties, particularly moisture-proofness. The composite material may also be used as a metal layer carrier for forming flexible printed electrical circuits.
Abstract:
The inventive method provides a simple and economical method of manufacturing a laminate which is catalytically effective for subsequent electroless deposition thereon of metals, such as copper, and which is useful as a substrate for printed circuit boards. Advantageously, the inventive method provides an improved laminate having a substantially uniform distribution of finely divided catalytic metal, Me (0) , within a crosslinked synthetic polymer impregnant. A catalytic metal-polymer complex is formed between a salt of a catalytic metal and a crosslinkable synthetic polymer, optionally containing a monomeric reactive diluent, to provide a concentrate which may be worked up into an impregnating composition for impregnating reinforcing material therewith. The complex is then destroyed and the catalytic metal, such as palladium-II, reduced to elemental metal, such as palladium metal, Pd (0) , during or after crosslinking of the polymer system under conditions effective for crosslinking the polymer system.. Preferably destruction and reduction occur during crosslinking. The catalytic metal is a Group IB or Group VIII metal, preferably palladium or nickel. The crosslinkable synthetic polymer is an unsaturated polyester or polyvinyl ester.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a polymeric base material which is catalytic for metal deposition. The base material comprises a first catalyst comprising a particulate silicate filler dispersed in the polymeric base material and an aromatic moiety having a hydroxyl substituent dissolved in or attached to the polymers of the polymeric base material. The polymeric base material optionally includes a second catalyst for metal deposition selected from the group of noble metals and noble metal compounds. In one aspect, the base material is a laminate comprised of glass cloth prepregs. The impregnating varnish comprises an epoxy resin, a silicate filler, and a curing agent for the epoxy resin, the curing agent being selected from the group consisting of phenolic resins and aromatic compounds having at least one hydroxyl group on the aromatic ring and mixtures of such curing agents. In yet another aspect, the invention comprises printed wiring boards having plated-through holes produced on the above base materials. The walls of the plated-through holes are plated with a copper deposit in which the sum of the thermal expansion and the strain at the elastic limit is approximately the same as the thermal expansion of the thickness of the base material.
Abstract:
Molded, one-piece articles having selected surfaces suitable for adherent metallization, molded, metallized, one-piece articles, and processes for making the said articles are disclosed. The molded one-piece articles may be formed by molding into a first mold cavity a first portion of the article using a first electrically insulating material which is adhesion promotable by an adhesion promotion process and is catalytic for adherent metallization, or is capable of being rendered catalytic for adherent metallization by an activating process; inserting the first portion into a second mold cavity; and molding into the second mold cavity a second portion of the article using a second electrically insulating material, leaving selected surface areas of the first portion exposed. The second material is resistant to the adhesion promotion process employed for the first material, or is non-catalytic for, and incapable of being rendered catalytic for, adherent metallization by the activating process employed for the first material. The exposed surface areas of the first portion of the article may then be metallized, for example, by electroless deposition to form the metallized one-piece article.
Abstract:
Molded, one piece articles having selected surfaces suitable for adherent metallization, molded metallized one-piece articles, and processes for making the said articles are disclosed. The molded one-piece articles may be formed by molding into a first mold cavity a first portion of the article using a first electrically insulating material which is an amorphous polymer resin capable of being adhesion promoted by an adhesion pro miting process and is catalytic for adherent metallization, or is capable of being rendered catalytic for adherent metallization by an activating process; inserting the first portion into a second mold cavity and molding into the second mold cavity a second portion of the article using a second electrically insulating material, leaving selected surface areas of the first portion exposed. The second material is a crystalline polymer resin resistant to the adhesion promotion process employed for the first material, non-catalytic for and incapable of being rendered catalytic for adherent metallization by the activating process employed for the first material. The exposed surface areas of the first portion of the article may then be metallized, e. g., by electroless metal deposition to form the metallized, one piece article.