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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 28, 2008
Filed:
Feb. 26, 2004
Lee Desmond Capper, Wolverhampton, GB;
Vincent C. Opaskar, Chagrin Falls, OH (US);
Paul Christopher Wynn, Staffordshire, GB;
Craig V. Bishop, Fort Mill, SC (US);
Lee Desmond Capper, Wolverhampton, GB;
Vincent C. Opaskar, Chagrin Falls, OH (US);
Paul Christopher Wynn, Staffordshire, GB;
Craig V. Bishop, Fort Mill, SC (US);
Atotech Deutschland GmbH, Berlin, DE;
Abstract
An electroplating bath, a system, a process for, and the article obtained from, depositing a zinc-nickel ternary or higher alloy, a) zinc ions; b) nickel ions; and c) one or more ionic species selected from ions of Te, Biand Sb, and in some embodiments, further including one or more additional ionic species selected from ions of Bi, Sb, Ag, Cd, Co, Cr, Cu, Fe, In, Mn, Mo, P, Snand W. In some embodiments, the system includes a divider forming a cathodic chamber and an anodic chamber, with the electroplating bath in the cathodic chamber only. In various embodiments, the zinc-nickel ternary and higher alloys may provide improved properties to the conductive substrates upon which the alloys are deposited.