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Electroless plating Ni/Au on Aluminum

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Hi, We are planning to use electroless plating to deposit very thin Ni/Au on aluminum pads to make them bondable. It will be greatly appreciated if anyone can provide me any information about this process ...

Thanks. Sincerely,

Bin Liu
University of California - California

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Hey Bin, This could work if the base metal is smooth enough.

Regards,

Fred Mueller, CEF
- Linden, New Jersey

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hi

help me

i want to know formulation of electroless ni/au & technical information.

please help me and thanks.

ramin azari
- mashad,kh,iran

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Virtually all electroless nickel plating in America is done from proprietary formulations that have required years of research to develop, Ramin, so no one can give you those formulations. Instead you must purchase them from the suppliers who have invested those years of work.

But information about the generalities can be found in Electroless Plating - Fundamentals & Applications by Mallory & Hajdu, Chemical (Electroless) Nickel Plating, by G.G. Gawrilov, and Electroless Nickel Plating [link is to info about book on Amazon] by Wolfgang Riedel. Good luck with your project!

Ted Mooney, P.E. finishing.com Brick, New Jersey

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Professor:

Now I want to study the mechanism of the function of brightening agents in electroless plating nickel solution ,but I have not enough material including books, considering paths and ways of measurement and test. Would you give me some advice?

Thank you,

Cuiguofeng
Harbin institute of technology - Harbin, P.R.China

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October 30, 2008

Hi Fred,

How about plating Ni/Au inside of the 10-24UNC-2B Tap hole (6061-H32 Aluminum material)? Would that work?

Thanks,

Tom Ng
- Palo Alto, California