What is the condition of your annealing chamber? Henry -------------------------------------------------------------- Henry Yang Mechanics and Micromechanics Group IBM Almaden Research Center 408-927-2319 Ravi Shankarcc: Sent by: Subject: Re: [mems-talk] Gold film mems-talk-admin@m emsnet.org 05/21/2002 09:43 AM Please respond to mems-talk what is the conditions in your evaporation system. Ravi shankar On Mon, 20 May 2002, Gurvinderjit Singh wrote: > Dear friend i have one query. > I am depositing gold film (thickness 0.1 micron)by thermal evaporation on > oxides, > but when i am annealing my sample to 700K this gold film become non > -conductive may be duo to formation of gold oxide. But from > literature i found > that gold should not become oxide till 1200K. I also read people using > gold electrodes (thin film by thermal evaporation) on their samples and > work till 900k kindly let me know where i am doing mistake, wether to take > more thick film or something else. > > > > _______________________________________________________________________________ > > > Gurvinderjit Singh Ahluwalia Tel: +91-0731-488656 > Laser Materials Division Fax: +91-0731-488650 > Centre for Advanced Technology email: gjit@cat.ernet.in > Indore - 452 013 INDIA > > _______________________________________________________________________________ > _______________________________________________ > 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/ _______________________________________________ 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/