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How Chips are Manufactured
Author: Gabriel Torres
Type: Tutorials Last Updated: November 24, 2005
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Clean Room

All the processes described take place inside a clean room. You may have already seen some pictures of people working inside a clean room with special clothes, called “bunny suits”.

Bunny Suits
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Figure 5: Bunny suits.

Since we are talking about microscopic transistors, even the smallest particle of dust can contaminate and destroy the chip, see some examples on Figure 6.

Clean Room
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Figure 6: Even the smallest dust particle can destroy the chip.

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