I believe most (perhaps all) people driving boron to 25 um do use a furnace "pre-deposition". Boron disks (usually boron-nitride) might be less expensive to set up than say, BBr3 or B2O3. You probably need a dose in the range of 5E15 to 1E16 atoms/ cm2. Watch out for "boron skin" during the deposition. You may need to employ a low temperature "wet" oxidation to remove it. Roger Brennan 3060 Reuben Drive Reno, NV 89502 Home: rogerbr@earthlink.net Home: 775-825-3060 Applications Director Solecon Labs 770 Trademark Drive Reno, NV 89521-5926 Work: roger@Solecon.com Work: 775-853-5900 ext 108 -----Original Message----- From: mems-talk-bounces@memsnet.org [mailto:mems-talk-bounces@memsnet.org]On Behalf Of Vinay Sent: Monday, December 19, 2005 10:12 AM To: mems-talk@memsnet.org Subject: [mems-talk] Boron implantation/thermal diffusion Hello All, We are trying to perform boron diffusion on silicon and hoping to achieve depths in the range of 20 to 25um. I spoke to a couple of companies who do ion implantation and they suggested i go with thermal diffusion of boron as against ion implantation. What do you guys think? Any suggestions or comments would be greatly appreatiated.