Chemistry: electrical and wave energy – Apparatus – Electrolytic
Patent
1984-04-25
1985-08-27
Valentine, Donald R.
Chemistry: electrical and wave energy
Apparatus
Electrolytic
427162, 428 64, C25D 1700, B05D 506, B32B 302
Patent
active
045376700
ABSTRACT:
There is disclosed a new and improved apparatus for making a stamping master for video disk replication wherein a film of material which is reversibly convertible between two stable states, one having a high electrical conductivity and the other having a low electrical conductivity, is deposited on a substrate while in one of the states. The material is then imaged with information in coded form by converting selected areas of the film to the other state in a predetermined pattern corresponding to the coded information. The conversion can be accomplished by light, electromagnetic energy or heat.
At this stage, an intermediate subassembly, composed of the imaged film on the substrate, is formed which can be read for accuracy by detecting the state of the selectively converted areas with respect to the rest of the film. Corrections can be made by converting the state of selected areas of the film as required.
A metal, such as nickel, is then electroplated onto the areas of the film which are in the high conductivity state. The plating is continued until the nickel spans the areas of the film on which it did not directly plate. In this way a continuous backing layer which is integral with the plated nickel is formed.
The nickel is then separated from the imaged material to provide a first stamping master which is used to form a second stamping master of opposite polarity to the first, preferably by a similar plating onto the first master. The second stamping master is used directly for video disk replication.
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Energy Conversion Devices Inc.
Norris Lawrence G.
Valentine Donald R.
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