Yes, I think you should try optimizing your temperature and time. You should also try hard-baking on a hot plate. I've found that using a hot plate is better than using an oven for almost all baking steps; I guess this may depend on the type of resist you use. David Fozdar University of Texas at Austin Department of Mechanical Engineering - Thermal-Fluids Systems Center for Nano Molecular Science and Technology Quoting junyu@berkeley.edu: > Hi, I'm a graduate student at UC Berkeley. I used S1818 for high density > 2um feature photolithography on Si wafer. The pattern looks great after > development with MicroDev. However, after hard bake in a 125oC oven for 30 > min, the fine features turned into an area of mud/spagattii kind of mass. > Larger features, 100um lines, were still fine. > > Does this mean my S1818 is bad? Or is this an intrinsic problem of S1818? > Should I reduce the hardbake temperautre and time?