Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and Technic, Inc. have entered into a CRADA (Cooperative Research and Development Agreement) with the goal of providing industry with an environmentally benign alternative to the presently used silver cyanide plating process. This project has been in-place for about six months and results are quite promising. The main objective, that of deposition of deposits as thick as 125 #mu#m (5 mils), has been met. Property data such as stress and hardness have been obtained and teh structure of the deposit has been analyzed via metallography and x-ray diffraction. These results will be presented in this paper, along with plans for future work.
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