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OwnerLaurence M.C. Lai, Anthony Russell +1inventors
InventorsLaurence M.C. Lai, Anthony Russell, Michael J. Shaw
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To achieve a large thickness of conductive metal-containing material in a feature of a product unit processed with a liquid-based etch process, the desired thickness of material is apportioned to the two opposing surfaces of a substrate to create a two-part feature. Conventional features are made by identically patterning two same-thickness metal-containing layers and electrically connecting the resulting patterned parts in any suitable manner. However, features may also be made that do not have identical parts on opposite sides of the substrate, the two parts being electrically connected but differing in thickness, in shape, or both. Moreover, having two metal-containing layers separated by an insulator is also useful for allowing different sections of the same feature or circuit to cross one another without shorting, or to overlap in whole or in part without shorting.
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A method for demetallizing a web to make a singular functional feature of a product unit, the singular functional feature composed of structures formed on each side of the web, the method comprising:
A method of effecting selective demetallization of a web containing a flexible substrate layer to make a singular functional feature composed of structures formed on each side of the substrate layer, the method comprising:
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