durusmail: mems-talk: Re: Holes in Pyrex
Re: Holes in Pyrex
1998-08-17
1998-08-17
Re: Holes in Pyrex
Jonathan Bernstein
1998-08-17
       If you don't have to have Pyrex, there is a photo-imagable glass
(Foturan) which can do 20:1 to 40:1 aspect ratio holes.  Corning invented
the product and discontinued it, then Hoya made it for a few years and
stopped.  The only manufacturer at present is Schott Glaswerke.
       The glass is a photo-sensitive, and becomes etchable in HF when
exposed to UV.  By heat treating the glass, it can be converted to a tough
ceramic.  This is a material with tremendous potential to be used in
micromachining.
      The fly in the ointment is the thermal expansion coefficient is
nowhere near Silicon (8.6 ppm/K), so if you need to wafer bond to Silicon
there may be a thermal mismatch issue.

Their US rep is
Craig Wurzel:
Schott Corporation
3 Odell Plaza
Yonkers , NY 10701-1405
914 378-3811 (Direct Line)
914 968-8900
Fax:  914 378-3892
email:  WUZEL@SG300L.ATTMAIL.COM

Regards,
Jon Bernstein


At 10:25 PM 8/13/98 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi folks.
>
>I looking to drill an array of 10umPyrex substrates.
>
>Any takers?
>
>Thanks.
>
>Robert S. Okojie
>rokojie@ford.com
>
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Jonathan Bernstein
MEMS Technology Center
Draper Laboratory, MS 37
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