Dear Raj Kumar, I think that increasing the temperature will result in obtaining the smooth surfaces. Regards, Mahdi Bagheri Raj Kumarwrote: Hello! Everybody I am observing ditches at the periphery of diaphragm etched in silicon with KOH etching. These ditches are at the intersection of etch front i.e. 100 plane and sloped wall i.e. 111 plane and are 2-3 micron deep. I am using 40% HOH at 80 deg. C. We also observed same problem with Isopropyl alcohol (IPA) addition. Can anybody suggest the cause and solution of this problem. RAJKUMAR SCL, India _______________________________________________ MEMS-talk@memsnet.org mailing list: to unsubscribe or change your list options, visit http://mail.mems-exchange.org/mailman/listinfo/mems-talk Hosted by the MEMS Exchange, providers of MEMS processing services. Visit us at http://www.memsnet.org/ __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Domains Claim yours for only $14.70/year http://smallbusiness.promotions.yahoo.com/offer