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Looking for mask to make holes in glass
2009-03-04
Moshe
2009-03-04
John Dangtran
2009-03-06
Albert Henning
2009-03-04
Mehmet Aykol
2009-03-04
Andrea Mazzolari
2009-03-04
Hanson, Steve
2009-03-06
Zhao Lu
2009-03-09
Mikael Evander
2009-03-05
Moshe
2009-03-05
walter
2009-03-05
Fei Wang
2009-03-06
Morten Aarøe
2009-03-06
Pat Kayatta
2009-03-06
akshdeep sharma
Looking for mask to make holes in glass
Morten Aarøe
2009-03-06
I think wet etching is remarkably difficult in this case, as you are not
really talking about mask stripping. What is happening, in my opinion,
is simply that the HF etches the glass away, that was bound to the mask.
Improving mask adhesion will not help in this case. Also, HF has a
remarkable ability to get into small crevices - which is why you have to
clean the oxide away before depositing your masking material, even when
etching Si wafers. This is at least my experience. I'm guessing it is
because of the large diffusivity of HF, but I have no theoretical
background to back that up.

// Morten

Moshe wrote:
> Thank you for all the answers
> I prefer to focus on a way to made holes with wet etch.
> I there a resist so the HF do not strip it ?
> As I said I tried gold and polysilicon and the HF strip it.
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