Are you using aqua regia to etch Pt? If so, we use 1813 resist with the following aqua regia recipe: 8 H2O : 7 HCl : 1 HNO3 @ 85C. To pattern a significant fraction of a 4" wafer, the volumes we use are 300 ml H2O: 260 ml HCl : 37.5 HNO3 and the etching is done in a pyrex 8"x 8" pan. NOTE: Using the above volumes we can only etch one (1) 4" wafer. After that the resist gets attacked within the first 20 sec.! -Mike >>> hzeng@ece.uic.edu 02/22/02 10:04AM >>> Hello All, Right now I'm trying to etch platinum. I checked in the THIN FILM PROCESSES talking about the echant, it doesn't give a proper material for mask. Can you please tell me by which mask material should I use in the Pt etching process? Thanks a lot, Hongjun Zeng Microfabrication Applications Laboratory (MAL) University of Illinois at Chicago ERF Building, 842 W. Taylor Street Chicago, IL 60607-7022 Room 3014 ERF Tel.: 312-413-5889, Fax: 312-996-6465 _______________________________________________ mems-talk@memsnet.org mailing list: to unsubscribe or change your list options, visit http://mail.mems-exchange.org/mailman/listinfo/mems-talk Hosted by the MEMS Exchange, providers of MEMS processing services. Visit us at http://www.mems-exchange.org/