Dear Mr. Bolukbas, Appreciate your response. Can you point me to a thermal band that you have used. I googled up the term and couldnt come up with anything intelligent. I have heard about this kind of tape form Nitto-Denko but I am wondering if you are aware of a more easily sourced tape. Thanks Shree On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 1:38 AM, basar bolukbaswrote: > > Dear Shree > > You can also try thermal band. It has got two similar side with a adhesion > future. First you put it on your carrier. Then you remove protective > coating on front side, so now you can put/stick your wafer on it. It has > got very good thermal conductivity. As it will be smaller than your wafer, > it will not react with your plasma, and you will not have a micromasking or > contamination problem. After your etching process, put your carrier with > your wafer on a hotplate @ 80C for a minute. Than you can easily remove > your wafer from carrier. No residues no cleaning problems. :) > > Regards. > > > From: snsnair@vt.edu > > Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2012 10:36:21 -0500 > > To: mems-talk@memsnet.org > > Subject: [mems-talk] Adhesive to bond onto a carrier wafer for etching > > > > Hello all, > > > > I need to mount a 4" silicon wafer on a 6" metallized carrier wafer, in > > order to etch it in a Alcatel deep-reactive ion etcher. I am wondering if > > someone has used thermal vacuum grease for this purpose that can be > removed > > easily at the end. The silicon wafer is patterned with photoresist and > has > > no other material on it. > > > > Thanks > > Shree > > _______________________________________________ > > Hosted by the MEMS and Nanotechnology Exchange, the country's leading > > provider of MEMS and Nanotechnology design and fabrication services. > > Visit us at http://www.mems-exchange.org > > > > Want to advertise to this community? See http://www.memsnet.org > > > > To unsubscribe: > > http://mail.mems-exchange.org/mailman/listinfo/mems-talk > > _______________________________________________ > Hosted by the MEMS and Nanotechnology Exchange, the country's leading > provider of MEMS and Nanotechnology design and fabrication services. > Visit us at http://www.mems-exchange.org > > Want to advertise to this community? See http://www.memsnet.org > > To unsubscribe: > http://mail.mems-exchange.org/mailman/listinfo/mems-talk > _______________________________________________ Hosted by the MEMS and Nanotechnology Exchange, the country's leading provider of MEMS and Nanotechnology design and fabrication services. Visit us at http://www.mems-exchange.org Want to advertise to this community? See http://www.memsnet.org To unsubscribe: http://mail.mems-exchange.org/mailman/listinfo/mems-talk