Metal film features from 1μm to 10cm across can be formed by a process developed at the University of Warwick, which exploits the characteristics of a cheap organofluorine compound, and needs no toxic chemicals. It is a vacuum deposition process that works with copper and silver, and exploits the different ‘condensation coefficient’ (‘C’) of two materials. ...

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