The Unseen Contaminant: Taking Charge of Electrostatic Contamination
Electrostatic forces occur naturally in everyday life, in all settings. These invisible fields are typically ignored unless the effects are a nuisance or are destructive. In the cleanroom, however, electrostatic forces contaminate the environment in some ways not normally considered. A practical knowledge and conscious effort must be employed to control and minimize these forces to avoid unexpected, negative cleanroom performance, equipment failures, and product destruction. This course provides students with a thorough, practical understanding and approach to recognizing, measuring, and minimizing harmful electrostatic force contamination in their own cleanrooms.
Course outline Who should attend? Course materials Instructor Next date and location
Course outline
- Why static charge is a cleanroom contaminant – ESA, ESD, EMI
- Static charge, the cleanroom and physics
- Triboelectric charging
- Insulators and conductors
- Static charge moves airborne particles
- Static charge causes equipment disruptions
- Static charge causes physical damage
- Instruments required for a static audit
- Static charge control – the 50,000 foot view
- The first static audit – assess your process
- Building an ESD control program – items to specify
- Personnel issues
- Equipment issues
- Ionizers – technology and implementation
- The configurations of corona ionizers
- Ionizer maintenance
- Importance of a static control program
Who should attend?
Information coming soon
Course materials
- Copy of PowerPoint presentation in a course binder
- Certificate of course attendance with completion of CEUs
Continuing Education Units: .6 CEUs
Instructor
Larry Levit
Next date and location
No dates currently scheduled.