hello guys: I havn't done experiments about bonding glass to glass,but I have some experience about PDMS bonding to glass. I think that after oxygen plasm treatment you should put them into oven at about 80C for nearly half an hour.It can irreversibly bond.You can try it. 2006/11/9, Joseph Grogan: > > You cannot anodically bond glass to glass with SiO2 in between them. The > way anodic bonding works is that the glass is heated to the point where > alkali ions (usually sodium) become mobile. When you apply a large > voltage (maybe ~1000V) the ions are pulled to the cathode (negative > side) leaving a depleted negative charge on the glass surface which then > gets attracted down to the other substrate (traditionally silicon) and > bonds. To bond glass to glass, you need to put a diffusion barrier in > between the glass, so that the top glass has something to reach down and > bond to, otherwise the sodium from the bottom glass just gets pulled up > into the top glass and no bonding occurs. SiO2 (glass) does not serve as > a diffusion barrier for sodium since the process is based on sodium > being mobile in glass at high temperature. For a good list of usable > films as diffusion barriers check this paper: > "Glass-to-glass anodic bonding with standard IC technology thin films as > intermediate layers" Berthod et al, Sensors and Actuators, 2000. > > I've never tried doing it, but I don't believe it's possible to bond > quartz to quartz because there are no mobile ions to migrate around. You > might be able to bond pyrex to quartz since the quartz has no ions to > leech across the gap, however, you need to make sure that you have > matched thermal expansion coefficients otherwise the thing will bond and > then shatter when it cools. > > PDMS bonding is a finiky art if you've never done it before. The key is > low power plasma for short time. I believe the reason is that long time > high power forms a glassy layer on the PDMS which prevents bonding. I > found this paper to be particularly helpful for settings and cleaning > procedures: "Three-Dimensional Micro-Channel Fabrication in > Polydimethylsiloxane(PDMS) Elastomer" Byung-Ho Jo, Journal of > Microelectromechanical Systems, Vol 9. No 1, 2000. > > good luck, > Joe Grogan