Luis Fonseca works on microchips in the largest ‘clean room’ in southern Europe, where the air is changed once a minute and is 10,000 times cleaner than ‘normal’ air
Luis Fonseca is director of the Institute of Microelectronics of Barcelona in Spain. Credit: Guillermo Gutierrez Carrascal forThe Institute of Microelectronics of Barcelona, in Spain, where we research and develop micro- and nanotechnology, hosts the largest ‘clean room’ in southern Europe, at 1,500 square metres. A clean room is a controlled environment where pollutants such as dust, airborne microorganisms and aerosol particles are filtered out.
The air in this part of the clean room is 10,000 times cleaner than ‘normal’ air. The air filters block any particle that could interfere with the fabrication. They also change all of the air in the room about once a minute. Here, I’m looking through the microscope of a contact-alignment instrument. This ensures the correct alignment of the layers of silicon dioxide and other metals that are deposited on the wafers as part of our chip-manufacturing process.
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