KMER resist Hello Colleagues: I wanted to thank everyone out there who responded to my question about patterning of Silicon Nitride. A lot of you have asked for any information that I get from the MEMS community about this question. Attached please find the original question that I asked and various replies that I received. I also wanted to point out the book where I found that Silicon Nitride can be etched using sodium hydroxide solution. The Title of the book is "Handbook of Metal Etchants" by Perrin Walker and William H. Tarn from CRC Press. ISBN 0-8493-3623-6 The recipe as they have written is as follows : "NaOH :90 g H2O :250 ml Temperature: boiling Rate of etching :180 A/min Resist used : KMER Glycerin or etylene glycol can be added for additional rate control." Some other good references that this book points out are as follows : · Wurzbach, J A & Grunthaner, F J --- J of Appl Physics, 130, 690 (1983) · Hess, D W ---J of Vac Sci Technology, A(2), 243, (1984) · Kurtz, F et al ---- J of Electrochemical Society, 113, 1452 (1966)