<div dir="ltr">Dear Lino,<div><br></div><div>We need a little more context for what you consider a "tiny piece". I routinely work with 1x1 cm pieces, and for those we use chucks that have an o-ring about 0.5 cm in diameter.</div><div><br></div><div>I have colleagues who have worked with 1mm x 1mm square diced samples. They mounted those on a large si handle wafer using double-sided carbon tape, like you would use to mount a sample on an SEM stub.</div><div><br></div><div>Hope this helps,</div><div>Orad</div><div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Orad Reshef, PhD</div><div dir="ltr"><br>Département de physique | Department of Physics<br>Université d’Ottawa | University of Ottawa<br><a href="http://boydnlo.ca" target="_blank">boydnlo.ca</a> | <a href="http://reshef.ca" target="_blank">reshef.ca</a><br></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Nov 16, 2020 at 11:44 AM Lino Eugene <<a href="mailto:lino.eugene@uwaterloo.ca">lino.eugene@uwaterloo.ca</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal">We are having more users who work on tiny pieces to be coated with photo and e-beam resist.<u></u><u></u></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u>custom chucks with a recess of the size of the chip<u></u><u></u></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u>Si carrier wafer with recess etched by SF6 plasma<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I am wondering if you could share the techniques you use to get uniform coating on very small pieces.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Lucida Calligraphy"">Lino Eugene, P.Eng., Ph.D.,<u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
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