Abstract:
Printed circuit boards, cards and chip carriers are fabricated by treating an already circuitized substrate with a swelling agent, then treating the circuitized substrate with a composition containing an alkaline permanganate, a chromate and/or chlorite and then applying a metal layer to coat the circuitized portion of the substrate.
Abstract:
Adhesive adhesive for electroless plating ensures insulation reliabilities between lines and between layers while maintaining a practical peel strength, and a printed circuit board using the adhesive are disclosed. The adhesive is formed by dispersing cured heat-resistant resin particles soluble in acid or oxidizing agent into uncured heat-resistant resin matrix hardly soluble in acid or oxidizing agent through curing treatment, in which the heat-resistant resin particles have an average particle size of not more than 2 &mgr;m, and comprised of rough particles and fine particles.
Abstract:
A process is described for treating metal surfaces with a composition comprising an oxidizer, an acid, a corrosion inhibitor, a source of halide ions, a source of adhesion enhancing ions selected from the group consisting of molybdates, tungstates, tantalates, niobates, vanadates and mixtures thereof and optionally a water soluble polymer in order to increase the adhesion of polymeric materials to the metal surface.
Abstract:
Metal surfaces, particularly copper surfaces, which are oxidatively micro-etched to increase surface area, are provided acid-resistance by exposure to a thiazole compound and/or a thiocarbamide compound. The thiazole compound and/or thiocarbamide compound may be provided either in the oxidative micro-etching solution or provided in a post-micro-etching solution.
Abstract:
The microetching and cleaning of copper clad substrates in printed wiring board production with solutions containing alkali metal persulfate and sulfuric acid is controlled to provide slower and more consistent copper etch rates by the presence of high proportions of alkali metal sulfate or an alkali metal sulfate/bisulfate mixture in the solutions, in a mole ratio of persulfate to sulfate or sulfate/bisulfate mixture of 1:0.1 to 1:10. When bisulfate is present with the sulfate, the sulfate will comprise at least about 10 mole % of the sulfate/bisulfate mixture. A surfactant may be present in the solutions to aid wettability on the copper clad substrates.
Abstract:
A process for copper coating printed circuit boards is disclosed. The process includes a treating step in which a metal surface is contacted with an adhesion promotion composition material. The adhesion promotion material includes 0.1 to 20% by weight hydrogen peroxide, an inorganic acid, an organic corrosion inhibitor and a surfactant.
Abstract:
There are disclosed an adhesive obtained by dispersing a cured amino resin fine powder soluble in acid or oxidizing agent into an uncured heat-resistant resin matrix hardly soluble in acid or oxidizing agent when being subjected to a curing treatment as well as a printed circuit board using this adhesive and a method of producing the same. The adhesive has excellent properties such as resistance to chemicals, heat resistance, electric properties, hardness and adhesion property owing to the use of the amino resin fine powder. Therefore, the printed circuit board using such an adhesive is not influenced by service circumstance and is high in the connection reliability without forming short circuit between patterns. Furthermore, in the method of producing the printed circuit board, the adhesive is provided in form of a sheet or a prepreg, whereby the printed circuit board can be produced easily and cheaply.
Abstract:
An etching solution for copper or copper alloys comprising, (a) sulfuric acid, (b) a persulfate, (c) at least one compound selected from imidazole, imidazole derivatives, pyridine derivatives, triazine, and triazine derivatives, and (d) water. The etching solution exhibits a high etching speed and does not oxidize the copper surfaces after etching.
Abstract:
Process for through-hole plating of printed circuit boards and multilayers by applying a conductive layer of a polythiophene onto the walls of the through-holes and electrodeposition of copper onto the walls of the through-holes, characterized in that a microemulsion of a monomeric thiophene of the formula (I) is used to form the conductive polythiophene layer, ##STR1## in which X denotes oxygen or a single bond,R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 mutually independently denote hydrogen or a C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl group or together form an optionally substituted C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkylene residue or a 1,2-cyclohexylene residue,and in that the conductive layer of polythiophene is produced on the walls of the through-holes by subsequent or simultaneous treatment with acid and, finally, a metal is electro-deposited on this conductive base.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a process for rendering acrylic based negative photoresists resistant to hot alkaline permanganate etchant and the iron chloride etchant and for improving the adhesion of the photoresist to the substrate, yet does not require halogenated reagents to develop or strip the photoresist. It has been discovered that the degradation of acrylic based negative photoresists by the permanganate etchant may be overcome by exposing an imaged acrylic based negative photoresist to select wavelengths of actinic radiation either ultraviolet light that is rich in deep UV, about 254 nm wavelength; or infrared radiation from about 2.4 to about 8 microns. Where UV radiation is used, the photoresist is then baked to reduce undercutting of the photoresist. Thereafter, the photoresist is stripped using nonhalocarbon solvents.