Swiss, Have you considered using an SOI wafer? It would essentially be a thin Si wafer bonded to a thick wafer, at the beginning of your process, which you could separate later. Jesse Fowler UCLA/MAE Dept., 420 Westwood Plaza, Room 37-129, ENGR IV Los Angeles, CA 90095-1597 | (310)825-3977 "Never worry again about the quality of your random numbers!" -- Advertisement