Bo, What size pillars and what material. I have a paper on producing pillars in Photoresist that are 0.5 microns diameter and 1.2 microns high. Using image reversal the angle of the side wall can be varied +/- 10 degrees from vertical with ease In the case of this paper the author wanted vertical side walls. Then flowing TEOS around the reversed image photo resist he defined contacts with vertical side walls and increases the speed of his devices 40% and decreased the size by 60%. let me know if this process can help. Bill Muffed -----Original Message----- From: Bo He [mailto:hezhenbo@hotmail.com] Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 9:50 AM To: mems-talk@memsnet.org Subject: [mems-talk] PDMS pillar shape Dear All: I am working on making pillar arrays by PDMS. But when I pull out PDMS from SU8 mold, I found most pillars were deformed (bent). The reason I am thinking about is that the cavity on SU8 mold has positive slope hence PDMS pillar has negative slope. The the top of PDMS pillar, which is in contact with the bottom of the cavity on SU8 mold, is larger then the bottom, so it's deformed or bent during pulling out. Is there anyway to solve the problem? Any suggestion is highly appreciated. Bo ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: Click Here _______________________________________________ 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/