Mike, Most implant species will not move during the bonding process. However, the Pyrex you are bonding to contains lot's of sodium which diffuses real well at those temperatures and ever at room temp. it might end up in you gate oxide and kill the active device. You should have some getter layer on the silicon i.e. PSG. Also, it is rather difficult to bond Pyrex to nitride. Usually this is done using 7070 Pyrex at ~ 450 deg which it too hot for CMOS metallization. Shay -----Original Message----- From: Michel Godin Subject: [mems-talk] Anodic bonding - implant damage? We're interested in encapsulating some electrolyte-insulator-silicon (EIS) sensors in glass microfluidics. My question is whether anodic bonding of the pyrex will cause damage to the implant traces required in the sensor design. I suppose the temperatures are too low to cause damage, but will the large electric field or ion migration be a problem? It should be pointed out that the implants will be covered by 800 nm of nitride, so direct bonding of the pyrex will be to the nitride. But there will some windows in the nitride where the underlying silicon will be exposed to an air gap (fluidic channel ~ 3 microns) between the pyrex and the surface. Any insight or references would be greatly appreciated.