Why not just fabricating a Si3N4 thin film by silicon etching ?? It is the simplest one to fabricate by yourself. Double side coating nitride layers and design a mask to define the geometry that you want on one side and general photolithography process,and then KOH etching (100) Si. (nitride doesn't react with KOH; therefore, you can create a nitride thin film) I didn't provide the detail process but think that it should be easy to figure it out. 0.3 um nitride coating is strong enough. Lung-hao Hu Graduate Student Dept.of Mechanical Engineering Univ.of Colorado Boulder UCB 427 CO 80309 U.S.A Email:lung.hu@colorado.edu Tel:303-786-1702(H) 303-492-6107(O) Fax:303-492-3498