Dear Roger. There are several nice spin -on boron solutions you can se too with much greater ease than implant or solid disc. I am sure you wish to avoid wafer damage on the surface and dope about 2.5 ohm per square this is easily obtainable with spin sources form Filmtronics . They make a PBF solution or Boron A, or B216B that you can spin on and diffuse for several hours to get this depth, if you wish to do a solid ceramic disc Planar diffusion which has a diameter of 2 inch 3,4,5,or 6 inch diameter boron which can give you a concentration of 1.4 ohm per square they have this product too and you can reach 25 microns. If you can live with a small amount of damage and want to get from 0.10 to 1.5 we can offer another type of diffusion from a preform. Either Filmtronics can provide a diffusion source and method far less cost than ion implant ant of excellent quality. I urge you to contact them and ask for their catalogue. I am sure they can help you as they have helped me. Sincerely, Neal At 05:40 PM 12/19/2005 -0800, you wrote: >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.