Conductive Aluminum – A Different Copper (Cu) Coating Solution

Conductive Aluminum – A Different Copper (Cu) Coating Solution

Aluminum is an inexpensive, robust, and highly machineable metal suitable for a number of applications. The largest failing with Aluminum is the lack of electrical conductivity to be used in grounding and electrical applications. Current copper plating technology requires an expensive multi-stepped stepped process comprised of several dozen steps to clean,…

Hybrid Electro-Electroless Deposition (HEED) – Indestructible Coatings

Hybrid Electro-Electroless Deposition (HEED) – Indestructible Coatings

Hybrid Electro-Electroless Depsosition (HEED) is the Electrochemical reduction of distinct metals or alloys by independent processes within a single electrolyte.  The wet electrochemical metal plating process combines both electroplating and electroless deposition to create an environmentally less-harmful means of producing metal layers.  For example, Nickel (Ni) and Cobalt (Co) normally require…