A substrate processing apparatus for forming a coating film on a peripheral edge portion including a peripheral edge of a front surface and a side surface of a substrate, includes: a substrate holder for rotatably holding the substrate; a first chemical liquid supplier for supplying a first chemical liquid onto the peripheral edge including a rear surface of the substrate; a partial removing part for removing the first chemical liquid adhering to at least a portion of the front and side surfaces; a second chemical liquid supplier for supplying a second chemical liquid for forming the coating film onto the front and side surfaces; a first chemical liquid removing part for removing the first chemical liquid remaining on the substrate to which the second chemical liquid adheres; and a controller for controlling the parts described above.

[Object]

To provide a copper clad laminate that is capable of achieving high adhesion between a low dielectric resin film and a copper plating layer and a good volume resistivity while suppressing a transmission loss when being applied to a flexible circuit board, and a method for producing the copper clad laminate.

[Solving Means]

A copper clad laminate of the present invention includes a low dielectric resin film having a relative permittivity of 3.5 or lower and a dissipation factor of 0.008 or lower at a frequency of 10 GHz, and an electroless copper plating layer laminated on at least one surface of the low dielectric resin film. A weighted average size of crystallites in the electroless copper plating layer is 25 to 300 nm, and an adhesion strength between the resin film and the electroless copper plating layer is 4.2 N/cm or more.

Provided is a method that is for manufacturing a conductive pattern-provided structure, that involves simple manufacturing steps, and that enables formation of a conductive pattern-provided structure having excellent interlayer adhesion. One mode of the present invention provides a method for manufacturing a conductive pattern-provided structure, the method comprising: a coating film formation step for obtaining a coating film by printing, on a base material, a dispersion that contains copper oxide-containing particles; and a plating step for performing electroless plating on the coating film by using a plating solution. The plating solution contains EDTA (ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid).

A method and apparatus for electroless plating of a conductive composite created using fused filament fabrication. The method comprises fused filament fabricating a three-dimensional object with conductive filament and non-conductive filament. The object is then plated with electroless plating, with the metal in the conductive filament forming nucleation sites.

The present invention relates to a method for metallizing a non-metallic substrate, the method comprising the steps (A) to (C), wherein step (A) is a pre-treatment step for etching and step (C) the metallization step. In step (A) a pre-treatment composition is utilized comprising individual manganese (II), (III), and (IV) species. The present invention furthermore relates to a specific pre-treatment composition.

The present invention relates to a method for treating a surface of a non-conductive or carbon-fibers containing substrate using a conditioning step a selector treatment step and an activating step.

A thermoplastic resin composition contains 10 to 90% by mass of (A) thermoplastic resin; 1 to 20% by mass of (B) laser direct structuring additive; and 0.3 to 7.0% by mass of (D) graphite, a total of the ingredient (A), the ingredient (B) and the ingredient (D) being always kept at 100% by mass or below, and a ratio by mass given by ingredient (B)/ingredient (D) being 1.0 to 20.

The purpose of the present invention is to provide a pretreatment method for electroless plating and a pretreatment solution for electroless plating capable of increasing an adsorption amount of a catalyst. A pretreatment method for electroless plating for performing an electroless plating on a substrate, the pretreatment method at least comprises: a cleaner process S10; a soft etching process S20 and/or an acid treatment process S30; a catalyst imparting process S40; and a catalyst reducing process S50, wherein an anionic surfactant for ionizing a part of a hydrophilic group to an anion is added to a treatment solution used in the soft etching process S20 and/or the acid treatment process S30, an ionic catalyst is imparted on the substrate in the catalyst imparting process S40, and the ionic catalyst is reduced in the catalyst reducing process S50 to increase an adsorption amount of the catalyst on the substrate.

A microstructure comprises a plurality of interconnected units wherein the units are formed of hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) tubes. The graphene tubes may be formed by photo-initiating the polymerization of a monomer in a pattern of interconnected units to form a polymer microlattice, removing unpolymerized monomer, coating the polymer microlattice with a metal, removing the polymer microlattice to leave a metal microlattice, depositing an h-BN precursor on the metal microlattice, converting the h-BN precursor to h-BN, and removing the metal microlattice.

A method of producing an electroconductive substrate including a base material, and an electroconductive pattern disposed on one main surface side of the base material includes: a step of forming a trench including a bottom surface to which a foundation layer is exposed, and a lateral surface which includes a surface of a trench formation layer, according to an imprint method; and a step of forming an electroconductive pattern layer by growing metal plating from the foundation layer which is exposed to the bottom surface of the trench.