Clean Rooms Blog

From Chocolate Bars to Cleanrooms

nicolet — Fri, 11 May 2012 18:47:18 +0000

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Whenever I hear or read cleanrooms, the image of Johnny Depp as Wonka quickly flashes into my mind. This only is for the first moment, before it fades to Gene Wilder and the television

Industry Event: SEMICON West 2012

admin — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 19:58:26 +0000

Do not miss the chance to experience a California summer this year. SEMICON West 2012 will be taking place in San Francisco, California from July 10th to the 12th. Take a break from the office, but still find ways to further your company at the event

Industry Event: IEST’s ESTECH 2012

admin — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 15:22:44 +0000

ESTECH 2012 is quickly approaching, so those wishing to attend should get their tickets fast! The Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology will be hosting ESTECH 2012 beginning April 30th and ending May 3rd, at the Doubletree by Hilton in O

Clean Rooms and Duct Tape

michaels — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:21:09 +0000

In the days, months and years immediately following the September 11th, 2001 attacks, threats to national security seemed to be popping up out of nowhere, some credible, some incredible. I remember, for example, when fear of coordinated biological wa

Industrial Clean Rooms – Reality vs Unreality

michaels — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:25:23 +0000

Hard drive manufacturing in an industrial clean room - image source

You might not think of clean rooms as being industrial utilities. Many people might instead picture scenes from a Dustin Hoffman movie involving

The Responsibility of Clean Room Manufacturers

michaels — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:45:36 +0000

Clean room manufacturers deal in trust as much as they do in clean rooms. I remember hearing once that the medical profession is the only profession from which perfection is always demanded. At the time I heard that, it seemed like a sensible enough

High Tech Fabrication in Semiconductor Clean Rooms

michaels — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:28:37 +0000

Ever heard of Moore’s law? The law states, basically, that approximately every two years, the number of transistors that can be included in an integrated circuit doubles. In other words, every two years, the amount of necessary space occupied by th

Laminar Clean Rooms and Bubble Boy

michaels — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 15:55:19 +0000

I’ve long been a fan of the T.V. show, Seinfeld. In case you’re not familiar with the show, it’s a situational comedy written by real-life comedian Jerry Seinfeld in which he and the rest of the cast, over the course of nine seasons, act out se

Clean Room Air Showers are Important Clean Room Accessories

michaels — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 20:56:37 +0000

Air showers – you’ve probably seen them in science fiction movies. They’re the equipment that is responsible for the burst of air or other gasses when a person enters certain kinds of clean rooms with strict air quality regulation requirements.

Advanced Research and Manufacturing Clean Rooms

michaels — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 16:08:06 +0000

On November 26, NASA launched its latest excursion to the surface of Mars; 244 days from now, the Curiosity probe is scheduled to touch down on the surface of Mars. The 2,000 lbs, nuclear powered rover has been described by NASA officials as the most