Hi Guys, Thanks a lot for your replies and help. I changed the sputtering recipe from Argon 50sccm to 30sccm @ 500W and the adhesion improved remarkably and the deposition rate is accelerated to 16nm/min. kind regards Salam R. Gabran, MASc. Research associate, PhD. Candidate Center for Integrated RF Engineering (CIRFE) Group ECE Dept., University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West Waterloo, Ontario, N2L3G1 cell.: 519-729-8066 Web: www.ece.uwaterloo.ca/~sgabran