Dear all. I would like to ask about the cleaning of a sample and its keeping. I prepared some metallic(Au/Ti) pattern on Silicon oxide(500nm)/Silicon. As time goes on, the roughness of the surface is very high in AFM result. For removing the roughness, I used ACETONE under ultrasonic for 10 seconds. (I observed the destructing of the metallic pattern in case of long time ultrasonic.) This process is good but not excellent. 1. Does anyone knows about the other process for cleaning my sample?(I can't uses some acid because of the metals.) 2. How can I store the wafer to prevent the contamination when I complete the fabrication process? How about coating with Photo-Resistor? Thanks in advance. ------------------------------------------------------------- Mr. Sungjun Lee Center for Science in Nanometer Scale, Inter-University Semiconductor Research Center, Seoul National University, Seoul, 151-742, South Korea Mobile:+82-16-2264658 Fax:+82-2-8748926 Mail:poyntor@yahoo.com -------------------------------------------------------------