Method of making sensitized polyimide polymers, having catalyst and electroless metal, metal deposits thereon and circuit patterns of various metallization schemes
AssigneeAMP Incorporated
InventorsJohn Peter Redmond, Albert Shirk, Elmer John Bottiglier, Richard Henry Zimmerman
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Abstract
A method is disclosed for the generation of circuit patterns on a polyimide type of substrate by preconditioning the substrate's surface with a hydrazine/caustic solution, depositing a catalyst on the surface treated polymer, and exposing the polymer with the catalyst thereon to a bath having a metal therein capable of deposition electrolessly on the polymer surface containing catalyst.
Claims13
A method for electrolessly plating a pattern of metal on a polyimide film with good adhesion therebetween comprising the steps of:
- preconditioning said polyimide film by immersion in a hydrazine-alkali metal hydroxide solution to at least partially etch a surface of said film;
- neutralizing said surface by rinsing in a dilute hydrochloric acid solution;
- immersing said film thus preconditioned in tin-palladium solutions separately in sequential steps or in a mixture of these solutios;
- rinsing said film to wash off loosely held catalyst, immersing said film in an electroless metal plating bath;
- and depositing on said film a metal from said electroless metal plating bath on areas exposed to said catalytic material.
A process for chemically preconditioning a polyimide film in order to electrolessly metal plate on said film with high adhesion which comprises the steps of:
- a. at least partially etching the surface of said polyimide film by immersion in a solution of hydrazine, unsymmetrical dimethyl hydrazine, monomethyl hydrazine, or phenyl hydrazine, or mixtures of same in admixture with an alkali metal hydroxide solution;
- b. rinsing and neutralizing the thus treated film;
- c. immersing said film in a catalyst solution known to initiate metal plating on said etchedareas in an electroless metal plating bath;
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- d. immersing said catalyzed, preconditioned film in an electroless metal plating bath to deposit a metal catalytically from said bath onto the film.
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