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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 19, 1991
Filed:
Jun. 27, 1988
Brent J Blumenstock, Trenton, NJ (US);
Jose A Ors, New Hope, PA (US);
AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Abstract
The specification describes a process for making a plating mask (17), for use in printed wiring board fabrication, with greater precision and definition than has previously been possible. An insulative substrate (11) includes on one surface a thin metal film (13). The film is covered with a relatively thick first mask layer (16) which is selectively removed to expose portions of the metal film, which are in turn removed to expose portions of the insulative substrate (11). The exposed portions of the insulative substrate are covered with a relatively thick plating mask layer (17) which abuts against the first mask layer (16). The first mask layer is then removed, leaving the remaining plating mask layer as a patterned plating mask which is then used as a mask for deposited metal (19) which defines a printed circuit.