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EP3023520B1
EP3023520B1 EP15193859.4A EP15193859A EP3023520B1 EP 3023520 B1 EP3023520 B1 EP 3023520B1 EP 15193859 A EP15193859 A EP 15193859A EP 3023520 B1 EP3023520 B1 EP 3023520B1
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  • the present invention is directed to environmentally friendly gold electroplating compositions and methods. More specifically, the present invention is directed to environmentally friendly gold electroplating compositions and methods where soft gold may be electroplated over broad current density ranges to provide bright soft gold deposits even under jet and pulse current plating conditions.
  • Electrolytic gold is typically used in connectors and electronic finishing because of the exceptional performance of gold for these particular uses.
  • Gold is one of the most reliable materials for electronic components because of its anticorrosion properties, electrical conductivity and thermal stability.
  • Substantially pure gold is generally electroplated from cyanide electrolytic plating baths containing several additives and metallic brighteners. Some of those additives such as hydrazine are toxic and are now restricted by many national and international regulations.
  • Most commercial pure gold baths contain free-cyanide and one or more grain refiner such as arsenic, thallium and lead which are known to be toxic to the environment, thus disposal of waste from such gold plating baths must be discrete and is also time consuming and costly to the industry.
  • such gold electroplating baths present undue hazards to workers using the baths.
  • U.S. 5,277,790 to Morrissey discloses a cyanide-free gold electroplating bath where gold is provided as a soluble sulfite complex.
  • the gold electroplating bath is cyanide-free, it undesirably generates sulfur dioxide at elevated temperatures. Sulfur dioxide is a toxic gas with a pungent odor. To address the problem even more sulfites are added to the plating solution.
  • the gold is plated at relatively low plating rates from near 0 to 30 mA/cm 2 . Accordingly, there is a need for an improved gold electroplating bath which is environmentally friendly and can plate over broad current density ranges.
  • DE2723910 discloses a gold electroplating bath free of free cyanide, said bath comprising a gold cyanide salt, a source of phosphate ions, potassium tartrate and antimony potassium tartrate.
  • Gold electroplating compositions including one or more sources of gold ions from gold-cyanide salts, one or more sources of phosphate ions, one or more sources of phosphonic acids or salts thereof, sodium potassium tartrate in amounts of 10 g/L to 50 g/L and one or more sources of antimony (III) ions to provide antimony (III) ions in amounts of 1 mg/L to 20 mg/L, the gold electroplating compositions are free of free-cyanide.
  • Method of electroplating gold include providing a gold electroplating composition including one or more sources of gold ions from gold-cyanide salts, one or more sources of phosphate ions, one or more sources of phosphonic acids or salts thereof, sodium potassium tartrate in amounts of 10 g/L to 50 g/L and one or more sources of antimony (III) ions to provide antimony (III) ions in amounts of 1 mg/L to 20 mg/L, the gold electroplating compositions are free of free-cyanide; contacting a substrate with the gold electroplating composition; and electroplating gold on the substrate using direct current or pulse current at a current density of 0.03 ASD or greater.
  • the gold electroplating compositions are environmentally friendly and may plate bright soft gold deposits over broad current density ranges including under high speed jet plating conditions.
  • the soft gold deposits also have fine grain structures.
  • the electroplating gold compositions may be used to plate gold strike layers on electronic components and may be used to electroplate soft gold layers in the formation of contacts for connectors and gold layers on switches or printed circuit boards.
  • the gold electroplating compositions may also be used to deposit soft gold layers on decorative articles.
  • the gold deposits also have fine grain structures. Small grain size reduces porosity in thin film.
  • the brightness of the deposits is also a direct consequence of this small grain size. Generally, the roughness of matte or semi bright deposit is high as compared to bright deposits which are smooth.
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  • Compositions include gold ions from one or more gold-cyanide salts such as alkali gold cyanide compounds such as potassium gold cyanide, sodium gold cyanide and ammonium gold cyanide.
  • alkali gold cyanide compound is potassium gold cyanide.
  • gold ions are provided by gold-cyanide salts, there is no free-cyanide added in the gold electroplating compositions such as cyanide alkali metal salts or any salt, except gold salts, which may provide free cyanide ligands.
  • additional gold ions may be provided by alkali gold thiosulfate compounds such as trisodium gold thiosulfate and tripotassium gold thiosulfate, gold halides such as gold chloride, hydrogen tetrachloroaurate and gold trichloride.
  • gold ions are provided only from gold-cyanide salts.
  • gold compounds are generally commercially available from a variety of suppliers or may be prepared by methods well known in the art.
  • the amount of gold salts added to the compositions is in amounts which provide gold ions at desired concentrations.
  • gold ions are in amounts of 4 g/L to 20 g/L, preferably from 8 g/L to 20 g/L, more preferably from 15 g/L to 20 g/L.
  • the amount of gold ions in the electroplating compositions depends on the type of plating, such as jet, rack or barrel plating.
  • Conducting inorganic acid and salts thereof are included in the gold electroplating compositions.
  • the inorganic acid and salts thereof are chosen from phosphoric acid and potassium dihydrogen phosphate, sodium dihydrogen phosphate, potassium phosphate, sodium phosphate and mixtures thereof.
  • phosphoric acid is added when using potassium phosphate.
  • Alkaline compounds also may be added to maintain the pH of the compositions at desired levels of 5 to 6.8, preferably 5.8 to 6.7, more preferably from 6 to 6.3.
  • Such alkaline compounds include, but are not limited to, hydroxides, carbonates, and other salts of sodium, potassium and magnesium.
  • NaOH, KOH, K 2 CO 3 , Na 2 CO 3 , NaHCO 3 and mixtures thereof are suitable alkaline compounds.
  • the alkaline materials are included in amounts of 1 g/L to 100 g/L.
  • Organophosphorus compounds are included as chelating agents for the gold ions in the gold electroplating compositions. They deprotonate and chelate with gold ions in the pH range of the gold electroplating compositions and the chelating capabilities of these compounds is good enough such that free cyanide from potassium cyanide or sodium cyanide is not added to stabilize the gold compositions.
  • the organophosphorus compounds include those compounds having the following formulation: wherein n is an integer from 2 to 3, inclusive, M 1 and M 2 may be the same or different and are chosen from hydrogen, ammonium, lower alkyl amine having 1-9 carbons atoms, preferably 1-5 carbon atoms or an alkali metal cation such as sodium, potassium and lithium, preferably the alkali metal cation is potassium or sodium, and Z is a radical equal in valence to n and is a linear or branched, substituted or unsubstituted (C 1 -C 12 )alkyl or an N-substituted (C 2 -C 3 )alkyl where the Z radical has a carbon atom linked to a phosphorus atom of formula (I).
  • Z is a linear or branched, substituted or unsubstituted (C 1 -C 4 )alkyl where the substituent group is hydroxyl.
  • Such compounds are included in amounts of 5 g/l to 200 g/L, preferably from 20 g/L to 150 g/L, more preferably from 50 g/l to 120 g/L.
  • a class of compounds falling within the above general formula includes aminotri (lower alkylidene phosphonic acids).
  • examples of such compounds include aminotri(methylene phosphonic acid), aminotri(ethylidene phosphonic acid), aminotri(isopropyllidene phosphonic acid), aminodi(methylene phosphonic acid) mono (ethylidene phosphonic acid), aminodi(methylene phosphonic acid) mono(isopropylidene phosphonic acid), aminomono(methylene phosphonic acid) di(ethylidene phosphonic acid) and aminomono(methylene phosphonic acid) diisopropylidene phosphonic acid.
  • Lower alkylidene diphosphonic acid compounds within the scope of the above formula are methylene diphosphonic acid, ethylidene diphosphonic acid, isopropylene diphosphonic acid, isopropylidene diphosphonic acid, 1-hydroxyethylidene diphosphonic acid, 1-hydroxypropylidene diphosphonic acid, butylidene diphosphonic acid.
  • organophosphorus compounds are tetrapotassium 1-hydroxyethylidene diphosphonate, tetrasodium 1-hydroxyethylidene diphosphonate and hydroxyethylene-1,1-diphosphonic acid.
  • Antimony (III) ions are included as potassium antimony tartrate in combination with sodium potassium tartrate. Although antimony (III) ions may be added as antimony chloride or antimony sulfate, antimony (III) is preferably added as antimony tartrate.
  • the salts of antimony (III) are added to the gold electroplating compositions in amounts to provide 1 mg/L to 20 mg/L, preferably 5 mg/L to 15 mg/L of antimony (III) ions.
  • Sodium potassium tartrate is added to the gold electroplating compositions in amounts of 10 g/l to 50 g/L, preferably from 15 g/l to 35 g/L.
  • Additional tartrate may be added to the gold electroplating compositions as tartaric acid, potassium tartrate or other water soluble tartrate salts and compounds in the amounts specified for the sodium potassium tartrate; however, the most preferred source of tartrate is sodium potassium tartrate for preventing the antimony (III) ions from oxidizing to antimony (V) ions. While not being bound by theory, the presence of the antimony (III) ions may provide for a bright gold deposit even under jet plating conditions. In addition, antimony may provide for a soft gold deposit.
  • the gold plating compositions may include one or more organic acids, such as citric acid, malic acid, oxalic acid, formic acid or polyethylene amino acetic acid or inorganic acids such as phosphoric acid.
  • organic acids such as citric acid, malic acid, oxalic acid, formic acid or polyethylene amino acetic acid or inorganic acids such as phosphoric acid.
  • Such acids help maintain the pH of the compositions in the desired range.
  • the acids are included in amounts of 1 g/L to 200 g/L.
  • Suitable gold complexing agents include, but are not limited to thiosulfuric acid, thiosulfate salts such as sodium thiosulfate, potassium thiosulfate, potassium sorbate and ammonium thiosulfate, ethylenediamine tetraacetic acid and its salts, iminodiacetic acid and nitrilotriacetic acid.
  • the one or more additional chelating or complexing agents may be added in conventional amounts, or such as in amounts of 1 g/L to 100 g/L, or such as 10 g/L to 50 g/L.
  • the one or more complexing agents are generally commercially available or may be prepared from methods well known in the art.
  • compositions also may include one or more surfactants.
  • Any suitable surfactant may be used in the compositions.
  • Such surfactants include, but are not limited to, alkoxyalkyl sulfates (alkyl ether sulfates) and alkoxyalkyl phosphates (alkyl ether phosphates).
  • the alkyl and alkoxy groups typically contain from 10 to 20 carbon atoms.
  • Examples of such surfactants are sodium lauryl sulfate, sodium capryl sulfate, sodium myristyl sulfate, sodium ether sulfate of a C 12 -C 18 straight chain alcohol, sodium lauryl ether phosphate and corresponding potassium salts.
  • N-oxide surfactants include, but are not limited to, cocodimethylamine N-oxide, lauryldimethylamine N-oxide, oleyldimethylamine N-oxide, dodecyldimethylamine N-oxide, octyldimethylamine N-oxide, bis-(hydroxyethyl)isodecyloxypropylamine N-oxide, decyldimethylamine N-oxide, cocamidopropyldimethylamine N-oxide, bis(hydroxyethyl) C 12 -C 15 alkoxypropylamine N-oxide, lauramine N-oxide, laurami-dopropyldimethylamine N-oxide, C 14 -C 16 alkyldimethylamine N-oxide, N,N-diemthyl (hydrogenated tallow alkyl) amine N-oxide
  • surfactants include, but are not limited to, betaines, and alkoxylates such as the ethylene oxide/propylene oxide (EO/PO) compounds. Such surfactants are well known in the art.
  • surfactants may be commercially obtained or made by methods described in the literature. Typically, the surfactants are included in the compositions in amounts of 0.1 g/L to 20 g/L.
  • the components of the compositions may be combined by any suitable method known in the art. Typically, the components are mixed in any order and the compositions are brought to a desired volume by adding sufficient water. Some heating may be necessary to solubilize certain composition components.
  • the gold electroplating compositions are substantially free of arsenic, lead, thallium, hydrazine and sulfites. In general, substantially free means that the metals, hydrazine and sulfites are not readily detectable with most conventional analytical apparatus or, if they are detectable, they are at levels of 100 ppb or less.
  • Current density ranges from 0.03 ASD and higher using DC or pulse plating.
  • current densities may be from 0.05 ASD to 2.5 ASD using DC current.
  • Gold ion concentrations preferably range from 4 g/L to 8 g/L.
  • current densities may range from 0.05 ASD to 4 ASD using DC current.
  • Gold ion concentrations preferably range from 8 g/L to 12 g/L; however, the applicable current density may be extend to 6 ASD for rack plating when using pulse current with ON: OFF times of 1: 3 ms.
  • gold ion concentrations preferably range from 12 g/L to 20 g/L.
  • Bright deposit may be obtained from 2 ASD to 70 ASD pulse peak current and ON:OFF pulse parameter of 1:1 to 1:4 ms.
  • the jet agitation can be varied from 100 L/hour to 1000 L/hour depending on the applied current density. It is preferable to use high agitation at higher pulse peak current.
  • the soft gold electroplating compositions may be used in rack plating, barrel plating and high speed jet plating by adjusting the gold concentration and the plating parameters. Unlike many conventional pure gold electroplating compositions, the gold electroplating compositions can be used with jet plating equipment for high speed gold deposition. Jet plating or plating at higher current densities is fast and provides increased electroplating efficiency on production lines than plating at lower current densities. Such high speed jet plating methods are highly desirable for mass production.
  • the soft gold electroplating compositions deposit substantially uniform soft gold deposits.
  • Gold hardness is typically expressed as knoop hardness values and represents the average of a number of tests using a 25 gram indenting tool.
  • the knoop hardness is from 91 to 129 a gold class B according to ASTM B488-11 as plated. After annealing the knoop hardness is 78 or a gold class A.
  • the purity of the gold deposits is 99.9% and is type III purity.
  • Plating times may vary. The amount of time depends on the desired thickness of the gold on the substrate. Typically, the thickness of the gold is from 0.01 microns to 50 microns, or such as from 0.1 microns to 2 microns, or such as from 0.2 microns to 0.5 microns.
  • the anodes are insoluble anodes such as stainless steel, platinum, platinum-clad tantalum, platinized titanium and graphite.
  • the anode is a platinized titanium anode.
  • the soft gold electroplating compositions may be used to electroplate gold layers on metals such as nickel, nickel alloys, copper, copper alloys, tin and tin alloys.
  • the gold electroplating compositions are used to electroplate gold on nickel and nickel alloys such as contacts, connectors, switches and printed circuit boards.
  • the gold electroplating compositions may also be used to plate gold layers on decorative articles such as jewelry.
  • the gold electroplating compositions may also be used to plate strike layers on substrates to improve adhesion between metal layers.
  • the soft gold electroplating compositions are environmentally friendly and may plate bright gold deposits over the applicable current density ranges using DC or pulse current and under barrel, rack or jet plating conditions.
  • the gold deposits also have fine grain structures. Small grain size reduces porosity in thin film.
  • the brightness of the deposits is also a direct consequence of this small grain size.
  • the roughness of matte or semi-bright deposit is high as compared to bright deposits which are smooth.
  • An aqueous soft gold electroplating bath having the following composition was prepared: Table 1 COMPONENT AMOUNT Gold from potassium gold cyanide 8 g/L Potassium dihydrogen phosphate 79 g/L Hydroxyethylene-1,1-diphosphonic acid 113 g/L Potassium hydroxide 64 g/L KATHONETM LXE Biocide 1 50 mg/L Sodium potassium tartrate 20 g/L Antimony (III) from potassium antimony tartrate 8 mg/L (antimony (III)) 1 5-Chlor-2 methyl-4-isothiazol-3-on, magnesium nitrate, copper nitrate and 2-methyl-2H-isothiazol-3-one available from The Dow Chemical Company, Midland, MI.
  • aqueous gold electroplating bath having the following formula was prepared: Table 2 COMPONENT AMOUNT Gold from potassium gold cyanide 8 g/L Potassium dihydrogen phosphate 79 g/L Hydroxyethylene-1,1-diphosphonic acid 113 g/L Potassium hydroxide 64 g/L KATHONETM LXE Biocide 50 mg/L Acetic acid 5 g/L Lead acetate trihydrate 6 mg/L as lead
  • Figure 2 shows one of the SEMs taken with the microscope.
  • the SEM showed coarse grain structure. This microstructure was in agreement with the optical appearance of the deposit which was semi-bright.
  • the grain structure and the optical appearance of gold plated from Table 2 were inferior to that of the gold electroplating composition of Example 1 where the test panels were electroplated with gold from an electroplating bath containing antimony (III) from potassium antimony tartrate with sodium potassium tartrate and free of lead.
  • the electroplating process described above was repeated except that the gold electroplating bath of Table 2 of Example 2 was used. After plating, the gold deposits electroplated from 0.5 ASD to 3 ASD had semi-bright deposits; however, the gold plated at 3.5 ASD and 4 ASD had a dull-matte appearance. The results showed that the gold electroplating bath of Table 1 had an improved plating performance in terms of applicable current density and appearance over the lead containing gold electroplating bath of Table 2.
  • a soft gold electrolytic plating bath as shown in the table below was prepared: Table 3 COMPONENT AMOUNT Gold from potassium gold cyanide 20 g/L Potassium dihydrogen phosphate 79 g/L Hydroxyethylene-1,1-diphosphonic acid 113 g/L Potassium hydroxide 64 g/L KATHONETM LXE Biocide 50 mg/L Sodium potassium tartrate 20 g/L Antimony (III) from potassium antimony tartrate 10 mg/L (antimony (III))
  • a double sided nickel pre-plated copper test panel 15 x 20mm 2 was mounted on jet plating equipment containing 1000 mL of the soft gold electroplating bath of Table 3.
  • the anode was a platinized titanium electrode.
  • the baths had a pH of 6.2 and the temperature of the bath was 60 °C.
  • Pulse current was applied with a peak current density of 50 ASD with an ON:OFF time of 1:3 ms. This corresponded to an average current density of 12.5 ASD.
  • the jet agitation or flow rate was set to 800 L/hour. After the 10 second plating period, the panels were removed from the bath, rinsed with deionized water and air dried. All of the panels had a bright gold deposit.
  • the process was repeated with the gold electroplating bath of Table 2 except the amount of gold ions was 20 g/L gold. The same jet agitation and plating parameters described above were used. The gold deposits were strongly matte or burned in appearance. The test was repeated except the pulse peak current density was 30 ASD with the same flow rate as above. This corresponded to the average current density of 7.5 ASD. All of the deposits were matte.
  • the electroplating bath of table 2 did not provide a bright or even a semi-bright gold deposit at high current density under jet agitation, thus the gold bath was inferior in performance to the gold plating bath of Table 3.

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  1. Une composition d'électroplacage d'or comprenant une ou plusieurs sources d'ions or provenant de sels de cyanure d'or, une ou plusieurs sources d'ions phosphate, une ou plusieurs sources d'acides phosphoniques ou de sels de ceux-ci, du tartrate de potassium et de sodium dans des quantités allant de 10 g/L à 50 g/L et une ou plusieurs sources d'ions antimoine (III) afin de fournir des ions antimoine (III) dans des quantités allant de 1 mg/L à 20 mg/L, la composition d'électroplacage d'or étant dépourvue de cyanure libre.
  2. La composition d'électroplacage d'or de la revendication 1, dans laquelle les sels de cyanure d'or sont choisis parmi le cyanure d'or et de potassium, le cyanure d'or et de sodium et le cyanure d'or et d'ammonium.
  3. La composition d'électroplacage d'or de la revendication 1, dans laquelle les une ou plusieurs sources d'ions phosphate sont choisies parmi l'acide phosphorique, le dihydrogénophosphate de sodium et le dihydrogénophosphate de potassium.
  4. La composition d'électroplacage d'or de la revendication 1, dans laquelle les un ou plusieurs acides phosphoniques ont une formule :
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     dans laquelle n est un nombre entier allant de 2 à 3, M1 et M2 peuvent être identiques ou différents et sont choisis parmi l'hydrogène, un ammonium, une amine d'alkyle inférieur ou un cation de métal alcalin et Z est un radical égal en valence à n et est un alkyle en C1 à C12 substitué ou non substitué, linéaire ou ramifié, ou un alkyle en C2 à C3 N-substitué, le radical Z ayant un atome de carbone lié à un atome de phosphore de la formule (I).
  5. La composition d'électroplacage d'or de la revendication 1, dans laquelle les une ou plusieurs sources d'ions antimoine (III) sont choisies parmi le tartrate d'antimoine et de potassium, le tartrate d'antimoine et de sodium, le sulfate d'antimoine et le chlorure d'antimoine.
  6. La composition d'électroplacage d'or de la revendication 1, la composition d'électroplacage d'or étant dépourvue de plomb, d'arsenic, de thallium, d'hydrazine
  7. Un procédé d'électroplacage d'or comprenant le fait de :
    a. fournir une composition d'électroplacage d'or comprenant une ou plusieurs sources d'ions or provenant de sels de cyanure d'or, une ou plusieurs sources d'ions phosphate, une ou plusieurs sources d'acides phosphoniques ou de sels de ceux-ci, du tartrate de potassium et de sodium dans des quantités allant de 10 g/L à 50 g/L et une ou plusieurs sources d'ions antimoine (III) afin de fournir des ions antimoine (III) dans des quantités allant de 1 mg/L à 20 mg/L, la composition d'électroplacage d'or étant dépourvue de cyanure libre ;
    b. mettre un substrat en contact avec la composition d'électroplacage d'or ; et
    c. électroplaquer de l'or sur le substrat à l'aide d'un courant continu ou d'un courant de pulsation à une densité de courant de 0,03 ASD ou supérieure.
  8. Le procédé d'électroplacage d'or de la revendication 7, dans lequel la densité de courant va de1 ASD à 50 ASD.
  9. Le procédé d'électroplacage d'or de la revendication 7, dans lequel les sels de cyanure d'or sont choisis parmi le cyanure d'or et de potassium, le cyanure d'or et de sodium, et le cyanure d'or et d'ammonium.
  10. Le procédé d'électroplacage d'or de la revendication 7, dans lequel les une ou plusieurs sources d'ions phosphate sont choisies parmi l'acide phosphorique, le dihydrogénophosphate de sodium et le dihydrogénophosphate de potassium.
  11. Le procédé d'électroplacage d'or de la revendication 7, dans lequel les un ou plusieurs acides phosphoniques ont une formule :
    Figure imgb0007
     dans laquelle n est un nombre entier allant de 2 à 3, M1 et M2 peuvent être identiques ou différents et sont choisis parmi l'hydrogène, un ammonium, une amine d'alkyle inférieur ou un cation de métal alcalin et Z est un radical égal en valence à n et est un alkyle en C1 à C12 substitué ou non substitué, linéaire ou ramifié, ou un alkyle en C2 à C3 N-substitué, le radical Z ayant un atome de carbone lié à un atome de phosphore de la formule (I).
  12. Le procédé d'électroplacage d'or de la revendication 7, dans lequel les une ou plusieurs sources d'ions antimoine (III) sont choisies parmi le tartrate d'antimoine et de potassium, le tartrate d'antimoine et de sodium, le sulfate d'antimoine et le chlorure d'antimoine.
  13. Le procédé d'électroplacage d'or de la revendication 7, dans lequel la composition d'électroplacage d'or est dépourvue de plomb, d'arsenic, de thallium, d'hydrazine et de sulfites.
  14. Le procédé d'électroplacage d'or de la revendication 7, dans lequel le substrat est une carte de circuit imprimé, un contact pour un connecteur, un commutateur ou un article de décoration.
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