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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 05, 1982
Filed:
Jul. 01, 1981
Walter R Holbrook, Reading, PA (US);
William A Sponsler, West Lawn, PA (US);
Western Electric Co., Inc., Allentown, PA (US);
Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc., New York, NY (US);
Abstract
A removable mask (22) protects at least one portion of a substrate (10) during treatment such as irradiation thereof. To obtain mask (22), there is applied over said portion of substrate (10) a parting layer (44) of a metal selected from the group consisting of nickel, aluminum, indium and tin. Over the parting layer (44), there is applied the removable mask (22) of a material which is adherent and harmless to the parting layer (44) and is substantially impenetrable by the treatment. After irradiation, the parting layer (44) is treated with at least a detaching agent sufficiently to detach said parting layer (44) and the mask (22) from substrate (10). For proton bombardment of a substrate (10) which includes gallium arsenide, the parting layer (44) is preferably nickel, the mask is preferably gold and the detaching agent includes hydrochloric acid.