Ion Exchange Substrate and Metalized Product and Apparatus and Method for Production Thereof

摘要

A method and apparatus for metalizing a substrate by heating and applying a voltage across an ion exchange substrate to embed metallic ions from a metallic layer within the ion exchange substrate by a process of ion exchange. The resultant as-diffused substrate has metallic ions are distributed substantially homogeneously across the substrate. This may be metalized by applying a pulsed laser beam to a surface of the as-diffused substrate at or near a concentration of metallic ions such that the energy of the laser causes the conversion of the metallic ions in the as-diffused substrate into metal atoms at or near the point at which the laser pulse is incident upon the as-diffused substrate thereby creating a metalized substrate with a surface pattern defined by the movement of the laser beam across the surface of the as-diffused substrate.

主权项

1. A method for creating an ion exchange substrate which is suitable for metalization, the method comprising the steps of:
creating an as-diffused substrate which is suitable for metalization by:
heating and applying a voltage across an ion exchange substrate to embed metallic ions from the metallic layer within the ion exchange substrate by a process of ion exchange to create an as-diffused substrate in which the metallic ions are distributed substantially homogeneously across the substrate.