Summary for gold plating on lithium niobate Discussion
Gold plating on lithium niobate is the core question here: Lee Leongtee asks how to pretreat and gold plate a 1 micron thick lithium niobate wafer. The thread excerpt provided does not include any replies, so there is no documented process recommendation, plating sequence, or caution from other contributors to summarize. Based on the source available, the only confirmed point is the need for a suitable pretreatment before attempting gold deposition on the wafer. Because no answer text is present, no specific method, chemistry, or equipment can be attributed to a named responder.
August 28, 2013
Q. We need to gold plate lithium niobate wafer of 1 micron thick. Does anybody know the pretreatment process and gold plate the wafer? Thank you.
Lee Leongtee
gold plating – Malacca, Malaysia