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Non-oxidizing copper thick film conductors
Assignee: Heraeus Cermalloy Inc
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Filing: 1988-02-11
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Granted: 1989-09-19
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Expires: 2008-02-11
Abstract
Abstract A non-oxidizing cooper thick film conductor comprising copper, said copper comprising metallic copper powder and copper oxide powder and applied to said copper are a manganese boron compound, an inorganic phosphate-containing acid and an organic vehicle, wherein the manganese boron compound ranges from 0.5 to 1.5 weight %, based on the total conductor weight and wherein the amount of phosphate is 50 to 300 ppm based on the weight of the metallic copper powder.
Inventors
- 👤 Jerry I. Steinberg
Bibliographic Details
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2026-11-07 16:18
CPC Classifications
H; H05; H05K; H05K1/00; H05K1/02; H05K1/09; H05K1/092; H01; H01B; H01B1/00; H01B1/14; H01B1/16; H10; H10W; H10W70/00; H10W70/60; H10W70/62; H10W70/66; H10W70/666; Y; Y10; Y10S; Y10S428/00; Y10S428/901; Y10T; Y10T428/00; Y10T428/24; Y10T428/24802; Y10T428/24917; Y10T428/24942; Y10T428/29; Y10T428/2982; Y10T428/2991
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 10
Claim 1
Independent Claim
145 words
A non-oxidizing copper thick film conductor comprising copper, said copper comprising metallic copper powder having a surface area of 0.50 to 1.20 m 2 /g and a tap density of 2.5 to 4.2 b/cm 2 and copper oxide powder, wherein the copper oxide ranges from 4 to 10 weight % of the total conductor weight and applied to said copper are a manganese boron compound selected from the group consisting of manganese boride and manganese borate, an inorganic phosphate-containing acid selected from the group consisting of hypophorous acid, metaphorous acid, orthophorous acid, pyrophorous acid, hypophosphoric acid, metaphosphoric acid, orthophosphoric acid and difluorophosphoric acid and an organic vehicle, wherein the manganese boron compound ranges from 0.5 to 1.5 weight %, based on the total conductor weight and wherein the amount of phosphate is 50 to 300 ppm based on the weight of the metallic copper powder.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
145 words
A non-oxidizing copper thick film conductor comprising copper, said copper comprising metallic copper powder having a surface area of 0.50 to 1.20 m 2 /g and a tap density of 2.5 to 4.2 b/cm 2 and copper oxide powder, wherein the copper oxide ranges from 4 to 10 weight % of the total conductor weight and applied to said copper are a manganese boron compound selected from the group consisting of manganese boride and manganese borate, an inorganic phosphate-containing acid selected from the group consisting of hypophorous acid, metaphorous acid, orthophorous acid, pyrophorous acid, hypophosphoric acid, metaphosphoric acid, orthophosphoric acid and difluorophosphoric acid and an organic vehicle, wherein the manganese boron compound ranges from 0.5 to 1.5 weight %, based on the total conductor weight and wherein the amount of phosphate is 50 to 300 ppm based on the weight of the metallic copper powder.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
25 words
A copper thick film conductor according to claim 1, wherein the copper oxide powder is selected from the group consisting of cuprous and cupric oxide.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
23 words
A copper thick film conductor according to claim 2, wherein the metallic copper is coated with a monolayer of the inorganic phosphate-containing acid.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
24 words
A copper thick film conductor according to claim 3, wherein at least 70% of the total metallic copper has the inorganic phosphate coating thereon.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
25 words
A copper thick film conductor according to claim 2, wherein the copper oxide ranges from 5 to 8 weight % of the total conductor weight.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
24 words
A copper thick film conductor according to claim 2, wherein the copper oxide has a surface area of 2 to 6 m 2 /g.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
25 words
A copper thick film conductor according to claim 1, wherein the manganese boron compound has a surface area of 0.5 to 3.0 m 2 /g.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
27 words
A copper thick film conductor according to claim 1, wherein the manganese boron compound ranges from 0.7 to 1.2 weight %, based on the total conductor weight.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
28 words
A copper thick film conductor according to claim 1, wherein the amount of phosphate is 70 to 150 ppm based on the weight of the metallic copper powder.
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