SILVER PLATING AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREFOR

摘要

There is provided a silver-plated product which has a good bendability and which can restrain the rise of the contact resistance thereof even if it is used in a high-temperature environment, and a method for producing the same. In a silver-plated product wherein a surface layer of silver is formed on the surface of a base material of copper or a copper alloy, or on the surface of an underlying layer of copper or a copper alloy formed on the base material, the percentage of an X-ray diffraction intensity on {200} plane of the surface layer with respect to the sum of X-ray diffraction intensities on {111}, {200}, {220} and {311} planes of the surface layer is 40 % or more.