Hello,

You can deposit Nickel using PVD (Physical Vapor Deposition) on glass substrate. In this technique, a Nickel target is sputtered using a plasma background (only gases without any liquid) and a metallic layer is deposited on your glass substrate.

You can also check other deposition techniques using gases but PVD is a known one for metallic deposition on solids.

Good luck

Best Regards

Loraine

using electroless plating , you need to activate the glass substrate first by Sncl2 and pdcl2 and then put the glass in nickel bath , it will deposit simultaneously .

if you need more info , let me know

I've read both about PVD and activation of glass surface for electroless nickel deposition. For PVD the problem is about cost effective, while for the activation, the adhesion is not good without polymer. For the glass activation is there anything other than SnCl2 and PdCl2 activation? it have problem in surface coverage and to act as seed layer