Abstract:
A process for manufacturing a wiring substrate, comprising a roughening step of roughening surfaces of insulating resin layers, at least one of the insulating resin layers containing an epoxy resin which contains 30 to 50 wt. % of an inorganic filler of SiO2 having an average grain diameter of 1.0 to 10.0 μm, wherein the roughening step includes a roughening step of dipping in a solution of permanganic acid at 70 to 85° C. for 20 minutes or longer.
Abstract:
A solution comprising potassium hydrogen peroxymonosulfate containing an elevated level of KHSO5 and having a weight ratio of SO5 to SO4 of greater than 1.0:1, and its use in microetching metal substrates is disclosed.
Abstract:
The invention is directed to a method and composition for providing chemically-resistant roughened copper surfaces suitable for subsequent multilayer lamination. In one embodiment, a smooth copper surface is contacted with an adhesion promoting composition under conditions effective to provide a roughened copper surface, the adhesion promoting composition comprising an oxidizer, a pH adjuster, a topography modifier, and a sulfur-containing coating stabilizer. In another embodiment, a smooth copper surface is contacted with an adhesion promoting composition under conditions effective to provide a roughened copper surface, the adhesion promoting composition comprising an oxidizer, a pH adjuster, and a topography modifier. Then, in a subsequent step, the roughened copper surface is contacted with an acid resistance promoting composition.
Abstract:
A liquid etchant and a method for roughening a copper surface each capable of providing copper with a roughened surface increased in acid resistance regardless of a chlorine ion in a short period of time, to thereby ensure firm adhesion between a copper conductive pattern and an outer layer material during manufacturing of a printed circuit board, resulting in the manufacturing being highly simplified. The liquid etchant includes a main component containing an oxo acid such as sulfuric acid and a peroxide such as hydrogen peroxide. Also, the liquid etchant includes an auxiliary component containing a tetrazole such as 5-aminotetrazole or the like, or a 1,2,3-azole. The liquid etchant permits a copper surface to be roughened in an acicular manner.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a solution and to a method of treating copper surfaces, the copper surfaces being brought into contact with an acidic treatment liquid which contains hydrogen peroxide and at least one five-membered heterocyclic compound as well as additionally at least one microstructure modifying agent selected from the group comprising thioles A, disulfides B, sulfides C and thioamides D having the following respective general formulae: 1 wherein R1 and R2nullalkyl, alkenyl, aryl, aralkyl, especially benzyl, cycloalkyl and the derivatives thereof and R3nullR1, R1nullO, R1nullS, amino or substituted amino, wherein R1 and R2 may especially be phenyl or substituted phenyl.
Abstract:
A multilayer printed circuit board having resinous insulating layers and conductor layers alternately superposed on a circuit board with ample adhesive strength, a method for the production thereof, and a curable resin composition useful for the formation of resinous insulating layers are disclosed. The manufacture of the multilayer printed circuit board is accomplished by applying the curable resin composition to the surface of conductor layer of the circuit board, thermally curing the applied layer thereby forming resinous insulating layer, then boring a through-hole in the circuit board, treating the resinous insulating layer with a coarsening agent thereby imparting undulating coarsened surface thereto, subsequently coating the surface of resinous insulating layer and the inner surface of the through-hole with a conductor layer as by electroless plating, and thereafter forming a prescribed circuit pattern in the conductor layer. The curable resin composition comprises (A) epoxy resins and (B) an epoxy resin curing agent as essential components thereof and optionally contains a rubber component and a filler capable of being decomposed or dissolved by a coarsening agent. This composition contains in combination a bisphenol A epoxy resin having an epoxy equivalent of not less than 400 and an epoxy resin having an epoxy equivalent of less then 400.
Abstract:
A process for removal of undesirable conductive material (e.g., catalyst material and seeped circuit material) on a circuitized substrate and the resultant circuitized substrates disclosed. Such process and resultant circuit effectively address the electrical shorting problems caused by nonremoval of the residual catalyst material and circuit material which has seeped under the residual catalyst material. The process includes the steps of: a) providing a catalyst layer (e.g., palladium and tin) having circuit pattern (e.g., copper) thereon; b) pretreating the catalyst layer and the circuit pattern (e.g., with a cyanide dip) for removal of undesirable portions of each which cause electrical leakage between circuit lines of the circuit pattern; c) oxidizing the catalyst layer and the circuit pattern (e.g., with chlorite, permanganate, hydrogen peroxide, or air at a temperature elevated above ambient conditions); and d) removing the undesirable portions of the catalyst layer and the undesirable portions of the circuit pattern (e.g., with a cyanide submersion). The resultant circuitized substrate includes a circuit pattern on a catalyst layer wherein undesirable portions of the catalyst layer and circuit pattern are completely removed between the circuit features of the circuit pattern so that electrical leakage between the circuit features does not occur.
Abstract:
Disclosed are methods for replenishing adhesion promoting baths from an unstable state without discarding the bath. Methods of adhesion promoting substrates, such as printed wiring boards, using the replenished baths are also disclosed.
Abstract:
A cleaning solution for electronic materials contains dissolved oxygen gas at a concentration greater than atmospheric saturation concentration, 0.1-10,000 mg/liter of ammonia, and 0.1-10,000 mg/liter of hydrogen peroxide in water. Alternatively, the cleaning solution contains dissolved reducing agents, 0.1-10,000 mg/liter of ammonia, and 0.1-10,000 mg/liter of hydrogen peroxide in water. A method for making the cleaning solution of the present invention is provided. A method for cleaning electronic materials using the cleaning solution of the present invention is also provided.
Abstract:
This adhesive for electroless plating can be produced without causing dust explosion and is excellent as an interlaminar resin insulating layer and is obtained by mixing an organic solvent dispersion of cured particles of heat resistant resin soluble or decomposable in an acid or an oxidizing agent with an uncured resin. The dispersion of the cured particles of the heat resistant resin in the organic solvent is obtained by dispersing cured particles formed in the production of heat resistant resin cured particles into the organic solvent without drying, and the uncured resin is a resin becoming hardly soluble in an acid or an oxidizing agent through curing treatment and capable of forming a heat resistant cured resin.