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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 26, 1994
Filed:
Feb. 04, 1993
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C23C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
106-122 ; 106-125 ;
Abstract
In an electroless plating bath containing bismuth trichloride, a reducing agent and complexing agents, stannous chloride is employed as the reducing agent to enable electroless plating of bismuth, which has generally been regarded as impossible. A preferable composition of the plating bath is 0.08M of bismuth trichloride, 0.34M of sodium citrate, 0.08M of EDTA, 0.20M of nitrilotriacetic acid, and 0.04M of stannous chloride. In plating treatment, the plating bath preferably has a temperature of 60.degree. C. and a pH value of 8.6 to 8.8.