Claims
- 1. In a method of manufacturing fully-additive printed wiring boards by electrolessly plating copper on precatalyzed base material, the base material containing a polymeric resin, woven glass cloth reinforcement and a palladium catalyzed clay filler to render the base material catalytic throughout for electrolessly depositing copper without an activation step, the improvement comprising:
- providing in the polymeric resin a phenolic resin component and a silicate filler, said silicate filler being between 30 and 100 parts per hundred parts of the polymeric resin, and being present in an amount sufficient to initiate electroless copper deposition at least four times faster than initiation on precatalyzed base material without said silicate filler and phenolic resin.
- 2. A method according to claim 1 wherein the polymeric resin is an epoxy resin, and the phenolic resin component is a curing agent for the epoxy resin, the phenolic resin being present in an amount that provides between 1% and 50% stoichiometric excess of aromatic hydroxyl groups over the epoxide groups.
- 3. A method according to claim 1 wherein the polymeric resin is an epoxy resin and the phenolic resin is selected from the group consisting of aldehyde condensation polymers with phenol, alkyl phenol, cresol and xylenol, and the noble metal catalyst is palladium, the palladium being present in an amount of 0.0005 to 0.05 parts palladium per hundred parts epoxy plus phenolic resin.
- 4. A method according to claim 1 wherein the polymeric resin is an epoxy resin, and the phenolic resin component is a curing agent for the epoxy resin, the phenolic resin being present in a 1-15% excess based on the stoichiometric amount needed to cure the epoxy resin.
- 5. In a method of manufacturing fully-additive printed wiring boards by electrolessly plating copper on precatalyzed base material, the base material containing a polymeric resin, woven glass cloth reinforcement and a palladium catalyzed clay filler, said palladium catalyzed clay filler dispersed sufficiently throughout the base material to render the base material catalytic throughout for electrolessly depositing copper without an activation step, the improvement comprising:
- providing in the polymeric resin a phenolic resin component, said phenolic resin component having aromatic hydroxyl substituents, and a silicate filler, said silicate filler being between 30 and 100 parts per hundred parts of the polymeric resin, and being present in an amount sufficient to initiate electroless copper deposition at least four times faster than initiation on precatalyzed base material without said silicate filler and phenolic resin.
- 6. A method according to claim 5 wherein said phenolic resin having an aromatic hydroxyl substituent is present in the range of 0.1 to 10 milliequivalents of aromatic hydroxyl per gram of silicate filler.
- 7. A method according to claim 6 wherein said phenolic resin having an aromatic hydroxyl substituent is present in the range of 0.1 to 5 milliequivalents of aromatic hydroxyl per gram of silicate filler.
- 8. A method according to claim 7 wherein said phenolic resin having an aromatic hydroxyl substituent is present in the range of 0.5 to 2 milliequivalents of aromatic hydroxyl per gram of silicate filler.
Parent Case Info
this is a continuation of co-pending application Ser. No. 07/698,851, filed on May 13, 1991 now abandoned. which is a continuation-in-part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 07/534,959 filed Jun. 8 , 1990 now abandoned.
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