Julie, If your etch profile needs to be absolutely vertical and you have small features you might not want a vertical resist profile. The resist at the edge of your features will charge up during the etch and may cause footing at the top of the hole. When STS installed our system, we spent considerable time optimizing the angle of the resist profile in order to get high quality small features. Seems like the angle was ~45 deg. In general though, I agree with Robert. I think you are re-flowing the resist, so try lowering your temperature and increasing the bake time. Good luck, Mike >>> r-black1@ti.com 07/22/05 3:18 PM >>> Try doing a 110 deg post exposure bake instead of a hardbake, or do a 110 deg PEB and a 100 deg hardbake. Usually a hardbake is not necessary for plasma etch with S1813. Robert