Patent ID: 7109066

Claim:
A method for forming a patterned silicon bearing material, the method comprising: providing a silicon substrate, the silicon substrate having a surface region and a backside region; forming a plurality of recessed regions on the surface region, each of the plurality of recessed regions having a border region, the plurality of recessed regions forming a patterned surface region; bonding the patterned surface region to a handle surface region of a handle substrate, each of the border regions being bonded to the handle surface region, while each of the recessed regions remain free from attachment to any surface of the handle surface region; masking the backside of the silicon substrate to form selected regions on the backside, the selected regions corresponding to exposed regions; applying an etchant to selected regions on the backside to remove a thickness of silicon substrate overlying each of the recessed regions; and releasing a thickness of material defined within the recessed region while maintaining each of the border regions bonded to the handle surface region to form a plurality of silicon structures bonded to the handle surface region, wherein the plurality of silicon structures are a plurality of standoff structures, each of the standoff structures being connected to each other in a continuous manner.