Fundamental aspects of plating technology V: The effect of strongly adsorbed species on the morphology of metal deposits

Abstract

It is shown that the improvement in the quality of electrodeposits obtained from CdSO₄ solution in the presence of strongly adsorbed species compared with that of deposits obtained in the absence of such species is due to a decrease in the exchange current density and an increase in the Tafel slope for the deposition process in the former case.