Dear Kim As Andrea suggested you can use HNA for making the circular grooves. In wet etchants, it is not possible to etches circular masking shapes (or other shapes) with vertical sidewalls due to crystallographic limitation of silicon. If the sidewalls is not a issue, you can use surfactant (NC-200, PEG, Triton-X-100) added 25 wt% TMAH in order to etch any shapes of masking pattern with negligible undercutting at the rounded and sharp corners, curved and <100>edges. Recently some studies of TMAH+surfactant have been published for the fabrication of new shapes of structures. Some of the references are given below: 1. Various Shapes of Silicon Freestanding Microfluidic Channels and Microstructures in One Step Lithography, Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, vol. 19, no.5, pp. (055003)1-11, May 2009.http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/0960-1317/19/5/055003/ 2. Study of rounded concave and sharp edge convex corners undercutting in CMOS compatible anisotropic etchants, Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, vol. 17, no.11, pp. 2299-2307, November 2007. http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/-search=62827073.2/0960-1317/17/11/017 3. Study on anisotropic silicon etching characteristics in various surfactant- added tetramethyl ammonium hydroxide water solutions" J. Micromech. Microeng. vol.15, pp.2028-37, 2005.http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/0960-1317/15/11/006/ If you are not able to download these papers, please let me know. I will send you by email as attachments. Good luck Prem Pal