[mems-talk] glass cracking during anodic bonding

[Brad Johnson]

You might want to try something that holds heat much better than alumina such as SST or SiC.  If you can't find SST or SiC, then keep the top chuck on the bond stack and slowly lower the temp so that the entire stack cools together.  Once the wafers hit 50C they should be good to handle without cracking due to CTE issues.

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-----Original Message-----
From: jingru zhang [mailto:jingru at eden.rutgers.edu] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2009 9:19 AM
To: General MEMS discussion
Subject: Re: [mems-talk] glass cracking during anodic bonding

Hi Brad,

Thank you very much for your advice. I used alumina chucks on both bottom
and top of the sample to fix the electrode and also slow down the cooling
rate. Do you think Al or SST will work better than alumina?