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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
Mikael Evander
2009-03-09
If you are flexible with what kind of glass you use, you can use a white
crown glass with a standard masking using chromium and photoresist. I've
etched through 700 µm thick wafers easily and you can probably go much
further. The thing is that the white crown etches around five times
faster than borosilicate and your masking layer will then last a lot
longer.

We are using a glass etching solution containing HF:HNO3:H20 (100:28:72)
which I guess is a bit less aggressive than the concentrated HF.

/Mikael

Moshe wrote:
> Hello
>
> I am looking for a way to make holes 1 mm diameter in glass.
> I did gold mask on the glass and  tried polysilicon as a mask too but the HF
stripped the masks.
>
> Do you have a solution for the mask ?
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