Вообще то существуют специальные технологии нанесения слоя золота для СВЧ без ферромагнитного подслоя. Но их применяют на частотах более 20 ГГц. Подслой - платина или палладий. Ну и цены прикиньте. Так что это применимо только в случае, если это очень надо. И делать приходиться самому.
На низких частотах, когда стандартный золото-никель был неприменим, заказывали голые платы (золотилось все, кроме той структуры, что работала в сильном магнитном поле). Паяльной маски на СВЧ части платы понятное дело небыло. Платы от производителя приходили покрытые канифольным лаком, для защиты от окисления в процессе транспорта. У нас канифоль смывалась и наносился слой серебра своими силами. Использовались цианистые электролиты. Потом все это паковалось в герметичный модуль с предустановленным мешочком силикагеля.
Цитата
To actually do electroplating requires a fair
amount of knowledge, and a good bit of chemistry. These are the basic
steps used in industry:
1) string the material to be plated on copper wire
2) put in a hot lye solution to remove grease and finger oils.
3) rinse in clear water.
4) put in aquaregia acid bath (HNO3+HCl+H2SO4) to remove tin from
surface of brass.
5) rinse in clear water (really well!!)
6) put in dilute electroless silver plating solution (acts as "seed" for
the soon to be electroplated silver.
7) rinse in clear water
8) put in silver plateing solution (Na0H + NaCN + Ag(CN)2) The "CN" is,
of course, cyanide. apply about 10A / sqft as I recall. The amount of
current is largely an art, as it depends on the shape of the object,
how many sharp points it has, how deep the cavities are... Too little
current, and the plating comes out milky, too much, and it is crusty on
the corners. (the chemical balance of the plating solution is also
very important to the final result.) You should be able to plate
a mirror finish on your object.
9) rinse in clear water.
10) put in potassium chromate solution to apply thin slightly protective layer.
(without the chrome, we couldn't even get the chassis's out of the factory
without finger prints!).
11) rinse very well in clear water.
12) dry with shop air gun.
I used to do all of the silver plating for NASA's primary telemetry receiver
contractor (DEI) when I was a 15 year old kid in the early '70s.
А для макетов используется безцианидный рецепт с натиранием платы
Цитата
The method we use to silver plate our PCB's has been published in many technical publications over the years.
The formula that I use has been changed from the original because I did not have the main ingredient on hand, but I did have some silver nitrate.
The original formula was 1 part silver chloride, 1 part common salt and 1 part cream of tartar(potassium hydrogen tartrate).
I use 1 part silver nitrate 0.07%, 1 part common salt and 1 part cream of tartar
.
The mixture makes slurry that is rubbed onto the PCB surface. The mixture transfers the silver to the copper surface, which gives good protection to the copper surface as well as adding a highly conductive surface to the PCB.
Using silver nitrate instead of silver chloride does not seem to alter the result although some discolouration of the silver surface can occur.