Hi Mehmet, This seems to be a tricky situation. I believe using a easily strippable photoresist (like AZ 9265 which can be removed in acetone) could protect the structures and can be removed easily after dicing. Using no air/water flow would result in silicon dust during dicing. The slower dicing speed would be ideal. Thanks, Ricky -----Original Message----- From: mems-talk-bounces+ricky.anthony=tyndall.ie@memsnet.org [mailto:mems-talk- bounces+ricky.anthony=tyndall.ie@memsnet.org] On Behalf Of Mehmet Yilmaz Sent: 20 June 2016 08:12 To: General MEMS discussionSubject: ***SPAM*** [mems-talk] Using DAD3220 Dicing Saw without water and air flow Dear mems-talk community, We have a standard Si wafer that we would like to dice into smaller 1cm x 1cm square pieces. The challenge is below: 1. We have very delicate structures on the Si wafer. So, we cannot flow *strong* air and/or water on Si wafer while dicing. The *strong* flow of air/wafer damages the delicate structures.* Here, it is very important to emphasize that, the main contributors to the damage are strong water flow and/or strong air flow.* As part of the solution, We can sacrifice a blade of a dicing saw (~30 USD), and just try to dice the wafer without water/air flow. However, we are concerned that we may be damaging more than just the blade of the dicing saw when we do not let air/water flow during dicing. In case you wonder, the dicing saw is from DISCO, and the type is DAD3220. Also, We may try spinning photoresist on the wafer to protect the delicate structures, but we are reluctant about spinning photoresist as well, due to some requirements on the final structures. Any comments from you who might have had this or similar experience in the past or currently, would really be appreciated. Thanks in advance. Regards, Mehmet Yilmaz Mechanical Engineer _______________________________________________ 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