Hey Renil, The hard mask is sputtered Al with thickness of 1500A and the the depth etched down to silicon is about 10um. I applied an etching cycle of 3s and a passivation cycle of 1s. The flow rate of SF6 = 200sccm and C4F8 = 100sccm. I've heard lowing the passivation flow rate might help with grass problem, but not quite sure. My Best, Li. Zhang --------- Graduate Student Edward P. Fitts Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC 27695-7906 USA TEL: (919) 413-5459 Email: lzhang13@ncsu.edu Web: http://www.ise.ncsu.edu http://www.nnf.ncsu.edu