New Mexico Tech Research Foundation

Chad S Watson

W Kent Schubert

Deidre Hirschfeld

A method is provided for anodically bonding glass and semiconducting material. A glass sample is immersed in a molten salt bath for a fixed period of time to modify the surface of the glass sample via ion exchange. The salt is a lithium salt or a proton source. After the glass sample is removed from the salt bath, the glass sample and semiconducting material are placed onto one another, and are then heated to a temperature of between 100&deg; C. and 500&deg; C. While at this temperature, a potential is applied across the glass and semiconducting material for a fixed period of time to effect anodic bonding together of the glass and semiconducting material.

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Chad S Watson