Dear Friends, Can anybody suggest how to calculate stress developed in Anodically bonded thinned Silicon wafer with slelectively unbonded region. We are observing the following: step 1: pockets are etched in silicon, and bonded to glass from etched side (anodic bonding) pocket dimension depth: 5 micron length and width 500 micron step 2: wafer is thinned from backside in DRIE. It is observed that the pocket region(unbonded region) pops up, when wafer is thinned to 30 micron Is it only due to stress related to Anodic bonding, or it is also due to the fact that silicon in thinned. In any case is there any way to analytically find out the stress. Ashwini.