Hi Lee, It is necessary to do post-bake before you deposite metal layer and coat the second SU-8 layer. Fully cross-linked SU-8 surface will be better for the metal layer deposition. Ren Yang --- Chen-Han Leewrote: > Hi Ren, > > thanks for the information > just one thing, between exposuring of the first > layer and depositing of the > second layer, > is it necessary to do a post-expose bake? > cos I think the first layer su-8 will be > over-crosslinked if the postexpose > bake is performed. > on the other hand, a post-exposure bake must be > performed immediately after > exposering, according the datasheets.