The MA8 is simply a manual aligner. The details of how you would do the alignment have everything to do with what sort of alignment marks you have on your mask. Also - I'm not sure that your 5" glass would fit in the mask frame of a MA8. Make sure it will before you have the mask made. On 8/31/07, Steven Yangwrote: > All my mask layers for fab will be: > 1) #1 for pattern etching > 2) #2 for Pt sputtering > 3) #3 for surface modification with polymer material > 4) #4 for another Pt sputtering > > I am going to use a rectangle 3x3cm 100 Si substrate, and make all > these 4 mask layer on one piece 5" soda lime glass mask. Once the > fabrication comes to a lithography step, I will align the sub with > corresponding mask layer on this 5" glass mask. I was told it is > possible to do it manually on a suss MA8 mask aligner, but no detailed > instruction. Anyboday has any experiences on this alignment and would > give any details for the instruction? -- Regards, dbp