He backside cooling? combined with residual film stress as the substrate is removed. If the stress has already been addressed with film stack combination or intentional low stress film dep - handle wafer might help. Bill Flounders Berkeley Microlab ashwini jambhalikar wrote: > Dear Friends, > > While making 20 micron -40 micron diaphragm in DRIE machine, I have observed > that the diaphragm gets popped up from the non exposed side.(the side which > is not seeing plasma). > Has anybody encountered something similar..what can be the possible cause of > this..has anybody encountered similar behaviour in wet etching..