Dear Ricky Anthony, Yongliang, Rick Morrison, and Horacio, Thanks for taking the time to answer my question. I will definitely consider, and take into account your answers. I will post another reply once I have a solid solution to the problem that I have. Sincerely, Mehmet On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 10:12 PM, HORACIO ESTRADA VAZQUEZ < horacio.estrada@cidesi.edu.mx> wrote: > I think laser dicing is the best scenario for the application/situation > that you are entretaining. > Not difficult to implement! > > Best regards, > > HE > > * _______* > > *Horacio V. Estrada, PhD* > Director > Laboratorio de Microsistemas > CIDESI > Queretaro, QRO > Phone: +52 (442) 211-9800 x1511 > Cell MEX: +52 (442) 471-4179, > Cell USA: +1 (980) 254-6951 > ________________________ > > 2016-06-20 2:11 GMT-05:00 Mehmet Yilmaz: > > > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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