Suggest you contact Brush Wellman, very active in brush plating.

George D. Gregoire, Pres., DCC

"Dimensional Circuits Corp. is the developer of IMPRINT
Patterning technology, a new and advantageous method
of forming advanced circuitry"\

----- Original Message -----
From: Cindi Prorok 
To: 
Sent: Monday, August 07, 2000 7:21 AM
Subject: Brush Electroless Plating?


> Dear Colleagues,
> Since I am finding how helpful the group with problems and going to hit
you
> with a big one for me and hopefully someone can lead me in the right
> direction. We started out just being a producer of electro-exploded nano
> metal powders and I am now trying to absorb the microelectronics industry.
> While doing R&D work on nano powders we developed a process that we
believe
> has significant potential but Im not sure where it has a place in MEMS.  I
> guess you could say it's " brush on auto catalytic deposition"?  or "high
> speed brush electroless plating"?  Its a new improvement on brush plating
> except there is no current needed and its a simple paint on technique.  It
> is capable of depositing a number of metals including copper, nickel, tin
> and gold.  The advantages are: For in-house plating, touch-up
applications,
> it may be amenable for patterning and lithography, it avoids the need for
> masking, and it can deposit elemental nickel as compared to high
resistivity
> electroless nickel phosphorous, etc.   So gang, what Im looking for is
ideas
> on what to call this and where it may find a home when the process is
fully
> developed?   All opinions are welcome and greatly appreciated. Thanks
again
> for everyone's kind advice.
>
> Cindi
>
> Cindi Prorok
> cindi@argonide.com
> Argonide Nanomaterials
> www.argonide.com
>
>