Finally dug up the paper: Jia, Z.; Fang, Q.; Fang, Z. Bonding of Glass Microfluidic Chips at Room Temperatures, Anal. Chem. 2004, 76, 5597-5602. This is about bonding glass, by pre-treating it in H2SO4 for 8-12 hours. I don't know if this will give you any success with quartz. The paper has a short review of bonding methods at the beginning that you may find helpful. Hope this helps, Jesse Fowler "Brubaker Chad"Sent by: mems-talk-bounces@memsnet.org 02/28/2006 08:28 AM Please respond to General MEMS discussion To "Chih-Chieh Cheng" , "General MEMS discussion" cc Brubaker Chad Subject RE: [mems-talk] Anyone ever done bonding for 3" quartz wafer? Chih-Chieh, When trying to bond quartz, your options are pretty limited unless you are using an intermediate layer. Without such a layer, your only choice is direct bonding. To accomplish this, you would first need to do a reverse RCA clean as follows: RCA2 (SC-2): HCl (37%): H2O2 (30%):H2O in a volume ratio of 1:1:6 at 70C for 5 minutes; DI water rinse RCA1 (SC-1) NH4OH (29%):H2O2 (30%):H2O in a volume ratio of 1:1:5 at 70C for 5 minutes; DI water rinse I've actually done these steps a few times myself in the ASU CSSER clean room; the chemicals should all be available. Once the clean is done, you would place them into the EVG501 using separation flags, cycle the chamber to achieve the desired atmosphere (nitrogen, vacuum, etc.), apply contact at a single point using the wafer bow function, and then pull the flags out one at a time. This "pre-bond" would be applied at room temperature. The key thing here is the smoothness and flatness of your wafers - the process works best if the surface roughness is very low (<0.5 nm RMS), but some bonding can still occur up to 2 nm RMS. Once the pre-bond is done, the wafers would need to be placed in a furnace at ~1000C for annealing. If 1000C is not feasible, another option is via plasma activation prior to the prebond (via an EVG810, for example), which will reduce the anneal temperature to below 300C. Best Regards, Chad Brubaker -----Original Message----- From: mems-talk-bounces@memsnet.org [mailto:mems-talk-bounces@memsnet.org] On Behalf Of Chih-Chieh Cheng Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 2:53 AM To: mems-talk@memsnet.org Subject: [mems-talk] Anyone ever done bonding for 3" quartz wafer? Hi, everyone As title, we are trying to bond two 3" quartz wafer using EVG 501. Do you have any comments on it?