Dear Aamer Mahmood The cracks might be due to the stress developed in the polyimide substrate inorder to remove it try heating the substrate to the same temp as you would like to heat the sub and the coating with out a Sio2 layer and then reduce the temp and then you can deposit the Sio2 layer this will improve the adhesion and temp stress developed in the film when heat curing. Thanks Sarfaraz Moh ___________________________________________________________ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com