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Keep That Chamber Clean! Outgassing of Common Plastic Materials Many of the process tools used in the manufacture of IC chips perform their critical steps within vacuum chambers. Given the cur …

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Is the PET raw material used in Semiconductor Process Tools the same as the PET bottle at the grocery store? The short answer is yes, the basic building block is the same, but the rheology of th …

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Several wet process steps are required in the production of an IC chip from a wafer. ECD, PECVD, ALD and Wafer Clean are examples of such process tools. Given the miniaturization of the chip com …

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PFA, aka: PerFluoroAlkoxy is a fluoropolymer with a very similar property profile to the industry standard PTFE. Both fluoropolymers were invented by DuPont Co. What makes PFA unique is that unl …

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Its one thing to know something has Super Man properties, but if you're like me you want to know why. The advent of fluoropolymers have brought to life huge value ever since the invent of the fi …

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Proper plastic selection requires the correct data for the application. In the Semiconductor Industry, as well as many other industries, chemical resistance is a critical factor in selecting the …

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