Contrary to many postings here, E-beam evaporation is thermal evaporation;
the charge is not cool by any means.

Roger Shile

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From: mems-talk-bounces@memsnet.org [mailto:mems-talk-bounces@memsnet.org]
On Behalf Of Brent Garber
Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 11:56 AM
To: General MEMS discussion
Subject: Re: [mems-talk] Depositing metals onto plastics and SU-8

Jon,

E-beam is the coolest method.

Brent

Jon Fox wrote:
> I'm using resistive evaporation to put down various metals onto SU-8
> and onto plastic substrates and am seeing significant sample heating
> which seems to be causing as little as some reflow or as much as
> unidentified hazy thin films around the sample.
>
> I will be trying to move my metal source (resistive canoe) away from
> the sample to alleviate this, but I was wondering what the preferred
> method of depositing metals onto polymers was: resistive, e-beam
> bombard, or sputtering?