Patent ID: 7914709

Claim:
A composition, useful for increasing the resistivity and adhesion of an electrically conductive pattern manufactured from such composition, consisting of finely divided particles of (a) an electrically-conductive material selected from the group consisting of a mixture of silver and nickel and derivatives of silver and nickel, wherein the Ag:Ni ratio is between about 1:1 and 25:1; (b) one or more inorganic binders; and (c) cobalt, wherein components (a), (b) and (c) are dispersed in a liquid vehicle, preferably an organic medium wherein component (a) is present in amounts of about 50 to about 98% by weight of the total solids present in the composition, and wherein component (c) is present in amounts of about 15 to about 45% by weight of the total solids present in the composition and wherein use of the composition results in resistivity increase to at least 10 μΩ cm and the adhesion increased to greater than 10 kg.