Abstract:
There are provided a copper powder for conductive paste, which comprises monodisperse and spherical fine copper particles having a sharp particle size distribution and containing no coarse particles and which can form a thinner electrode film while avoiding a bad influence on electric characteristics thereof, and a method for stably producing such a copper powder for conductive paste. After copper is complexed by adding a complexing agent to an aqueous solution containing copper while blowing air into the solution, the blowing of air is stopped, and then, a reducing agent is added to the solution to deposit copper particles by reduction.
Abstract:
After there is prepared a conductive paste which contains fine copper particles having an average particle diameter of 1 to 100 nm, each of the fine copper particles being coated with an azole compound, coarse copper particles having an average particle diameter of 0.3 to 20 µm, a glycol solvent, such as ethylene glycol, and at least one of a polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) resin and a polyvinyl butyral (PVB) resin and wherein the total amount of the fine copper particles and the coarse copper particles is 50 to 90% by weight, the weight ratio of the fine copper particles to the coarse copper particles being in the range of from 1:9 to 5:5, the conductive paste thus prepared is applied on a substrate by screen printing to be preliminary-fired by vacuum drying, and then, fired with light irradiation by irradiating with light having a wavelength of 200 to 800 nm at a pulse period of 500 to 2000 µs and a pulse voltage of 1600 to 3800 V to form a conductive film on the substrate.
Abstract:
In a fine silver particle dispersing solution wherein 30 to 75 % by weight of fine silver particles, which are coated with an organic acid having a carbon number of 5 to 8 or a derivative thereof and which have an average particle diameter of 1 to 100 nm, are dispersed in a water-based dispersion medium which is a solvent containing water as a main component, the fine silver particle dispersing solution containing ammonia and nitric acid, there is added 0.15 to 0.6 % by weight of a surface regulating agent, which preferably contains a polyether-modified polydimethylsiloxane and a polyoxyethylene alkyl ether or a polyether, or 0.005 to 0.6 % by weight of an antifoaming agent which is preferably a silicone antifoaming agent.
Abstract:
A copper particle dispersing solution obtained by dispersing fine copper particles having an average particle diameter of 1 to 100 nm, each of the fine copper particles being coated with an azole compound, such as benzotriazole, and coarse copper particles having an average particle diameter of 0.3 to 20 µ m in a dispersing medium, such as ethylene glycol, so as to cause the total amount of the fine copper particles and coarse copper particles to be 50 to 90 % by weight and so as to cause the ratio of the weight of the fine copper particles to the weight of the coarse copper particles to be in the range of from 1:9 to 5:5, is applied on a substrate by screen printing or flexographic printing to be preliminary-fired with vacuum drying, and then, fired with light irradiation by irradiating light having a wavelength of 200 to 800 nm at a pulse period of 100 to 3000 µ m and a pulse voltage of 1600 to 3600 V, to form a conductive film on the substrate.