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US 4,052,273 AGranted
Method of anodizing porous tantalum
AssigneeCorning Glass Works
InventorsBernard S. Aronson, James A. Murphy
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Abstract
A method of anodizing porous tantalum material suitable for making a porous tantalum capacitor pellet or slug having decreased current leakage is described. After a pellet is anodized at a maximum predetermined desired voltage, it is removed from the anodizing bath and heated to a temperature of between 150.degree. C. and 300.degree. C. The pellet is maintained at such temperature for at least three minutes and then returned to the anodizing bath, at least once, and subjected to more electrical current.
Claims4
The method of anodizing a porous tantalum pellet comprising the steps of
- providing a porous tantalum pellet,
- preparing an anodizing bath of an aqueous nitric acid solution,
- disposing said pellet in said anodizing bath,
- passing an electrical current of up to 90 ma. per gram of pellet weight through said pellet for a period of at least 30 minutes, said current being substantially constant until a predetermined desired voltage is reached and thereafter said voltage remaining substantially constant,
- removing said pellet from said bath,
- heating said pellet to at a temperature of between 150.degree. C. and 300.degree. C., maintaining said pellet at said temperature for at least 3 minutes to dry out the pores therein,
- returning said pellet to said anodizing bath, passing an electrical current through said pellet at a voltage up to about said predetermined desired voltage for at least one minute, and thereafter
- removing said pellet from said bath.
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