PROCESS FOR COATING ELECTRICALLY NON-CONDUCTING SURFACES WITH CONNECTED METAL STRUCTURES

摘要

According to the present invention, sharply defined metal structures can be produced on electrically non-conducting surfaces without the use of etching processes by using a process involving the following essential process steps: application of a catalyst suitable for currentless metal deposition; subsequent formation of interconnected structures on the surfaces using mask technology; currentless deposition of an initial thin metal layer onto catalytically coated surface regions which have been exposed following and by the action of structuring processes; electrolytic deposition of a second metal layer on the first metal layer which forms interconnected structures.