> Of late it has been my observation that some people have stopped visiting
> library and rely on the MEMS mailing list for information for their grad
> projects. I think the purpose of this list is to share experience and
> discuss show stoppers in the FAB or design not just to save a trip to the
> library. So I strongly feel that questions like below answers to which can
> be found in any (thin film) text book,  should be discouraged.

A lot of what we discuss in this newsgroup cannot be found in the library.
Examples include names of good commercial suppliers
and the useful but unreported results of experiments.