Patent ID: 7235483

Claim:
A method of forming a film on an object, said method comprising: positioning the object within an electroless deposition apparatus having means for instantaneous temperature control of said object; electrolessly depositing a material upon the object; instantaneously changing the temperature of said object by said means of instantaneous control at one or more predetermined times during the step of electrolessly depositing the material, wherein the predetermined times correspond to different film-growth stages of the material, wherein the different film-growth stages comprise: a first stage in which nuclei of the material are formed on said object; a second stage in which the nuclei are converted into an interconnected cluster structure; and a third stage in which the interconnected cluster structure is converted into a continuous layer cleaning said object subsequent to the step of electrolessly depositing the material upon the object; and depositing a plurality of layers having different physical characteristics onto said contiguous layer subsequent to the step of cleaning the object, each one of said plurality of layers being deposited within a temperature range for obtaining its respective different physical characteristics.