Dowa Electronics Materials Co., Ltd.

Hiroaki Koubu

Noriaki Nogami

Taro Torigoe

Fumiya Abe

Minami Kanasugi

Provided are a silver powder that can reduce line resistance and a method of producing the same. The silver powder has a diameter at a cumulative value of 50% of 3 μm or more and a ratio of particles of 10 μm or larger of 10% or less. The silver powder includes flake-like particles having a major axis of 6 μm or more and irregularly shaped particles having a major axis of less than 6 μm, an average aspect ratio that is a ratio of average major axis relative to average thickness of the flake-like particles is 8 or more, and a shape factor that is a ratio of area of a circle having average maximum length of the irregularly shaped particles as a diameter relative to average particle area of the irregularly shaped particles is 1.7 to 1.9. Ignition loss is 0.1 wt % to 0.4 wt %.

Silver powder, method of producing silver powder, and conductive paste

After preparing a silver-coated copper powder wherein the surface of a copper powder having an average particle diameter of 0.1 to 100 &#x3bc;m is coated with silver, the silver-coated copper powder is sprayed into the tail flame region of a thermal plasma to cause silver on the surface of the copper powder to diffuse in the grain boundaries of copper on the inside of the copper powder, and thereafter, the surface of the copper powder is coated with silver to produce a metal composite powder wherein the percentage of the area occupied by silver on a cross section of the metal composite powder is 3 to 20% and wherein the surface thereof is coated with silver.

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Tokyo, Japan

Hiroaki Koubu