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Chemija / Chemistry

ISSN 0235-7216
ISSN 2424-4538 (online)

2010 m. Nr. 1

Structural study of Ag layers deposited from solution of silver sulphite complexes
Gintarė VISELGIENĖ, Gintaras BALTRŪNAS, Henrikas CESIULIS, Dijana ŠIMKŪNAITĖ

When silver coating deposition proceeds via the discharge of silver sulphite complexes, this coating is of a rather good quality. The application of cathodic current pulses was found to increase the degree of microcrystallinity of Ag layers. This fact can be illustrated, particularly, by a decrease of the dimensions of Ag crystallites from 0.7–5 μm at a constant current to 0.1–0.5 μm at a pulse current, i. e. approximately tenfold. Unfortunately, the problem of porosity of Ag coatings electrodeposited from sulphite solutions remains unsolved. The porosity of these coatings makes 1–3% of its surface.

Keywords: silver, sulphite solutions, SEM, X-ray microanalyzer, porosity

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