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Photoresist as etch mask!
2007-10-01
Nitin Shukla
2007-10-02
Xiaoguang Liu
2007-10-02
sebastian wicklein
2007-10-02
Edward Sebesta
Photoresist as etch mask!
Edward Sebesta
2007-10-02
If you hard bake the resist at 150 or 170 deg. C it should be fairly
impervious to KOH or TMAH. Deep UV treatment would prevent reflow if
that would be a problem. Vacuum hard bake makes a very hard baked. Of
course you would have to worry about removal and might need plasma O2.

However, the positive resist Novalak system is design to be balanced
between insoluability and soluability with alkali solutions. So if you
want no baking and still lots of resistance resistance, I think you
would have to go with a negative resist and a reversed mask.

Then there are more exotic solutions like some bilayer combination.

I am not sure what the constraints you have.

Ed

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Subject: [mems-talk] Photoresist as etch mask!

Hi,
  I would appreciate if anyone could suggest me a photoresist that would
not be etched by TMAH or KOH.
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