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
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
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