Depending on the aspect ratio of your trenches, you can ion implant at an angle. This was done a few years back at Stanford to form sidewall piezoresistors for accelerometers. --Kirt Williams ----- Original Message ----- From:To: Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 4:23 PM Subject: [mems-talk] forming boron and arsenic doped sidewalls in a siliconwafer >I am trying to form boron and arsenic doped sidewalls in trenches in a >silicon wafer. I thought of doing reactive ion or electrochemical etching >of the trench bottom after isotropic doping, but I'm worried that the >reaction will be hard to time correctly because the silicon underneath >would etch much faster than the doped layer. Any thoughts you have on the >most efficient process to form doped sidewalls would be greatly >appreciated. >