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Solid State Technology
Year 2003
Issue 12
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Barrier Film Minimizes D
Barrier film minimizes drug contamination
Interaction between parenteral drug products and the packaging continues to be a critical issue, especially since validation and risk-based approaches are top priorities on the Food and Drug Administration's agenda for current good manufacturing practices (cGMPs).
Particles
Particles
Two Part Iso Biocontamin
Two-part ISO biocontamination control standard unveiled
Five down, five to go.
Cc Manufacturers Its Tim
CC manufacturers: It's time to debunk myths of doing business in China
Countless manufacturing jobs are continually lost to China, where salaries pale in comparison to those of American workers. And while that alarms many in the United States, the shift by life sciences, chip and microelectronics companies to Asia Pacific is not likely to end anytime soon.
Is The Upturn Here At La
Is the upturn here at last?
Samsung is doing it. So is Micron Technologies. The same goes for Powerchip and Elpida.
New Gate Materials Enabl
New gate materials enable higher performing transistors
The days of Moore's Law with silicon dioxide are numbered.
Jurors To Determine Whet
Jurors to determine whether cleanrooms caused cancer
The case against Armonk, N.Y.-based IBM Corp. and various chemical manufacturers finally got underway in early November after some difficulty in empanelling an impartial jury.
Plume Problem Remains Un
Plume problem remains under investigation
Tom Mehl is trying to sell his house, but finding a buyer has been tough for the simple reason that he lives in the "area of vapor contamination" created by plume that is emanating from a nearby IBM Corp. plant.
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DEPARTMENTS
Viewpoint
Time for finding solutions, not taking sides
The semiconductor industry is no stranger to severe allegations and drawn out legal battles concerning the issue of environmental health and safety (EH&S). These concerns have followed the industry since its inception and will continue to ride its heels as long as the use of chemicals and gases are core to success.
Inventors Corner
Inventor's Corner
Unfiltered
Six life lessons for cleanroom owners
The other day, I had the dubious pleasure of sitting across the table from the owner of a newly built contamination-controlled life sciences facility. The pleasure was dubious because the critical laboratories of this facility have remained empty and unused ever since construction ended. The litany of problems listed by the owner seemed endless.
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COLUMNS
Life Sciences
Contemplate the complete cost of pharmaceutical development
Newspaper headlines read healthcare costs are out of control while Americans are asking how drug companies can sell drugs cheaper outside the United States.
Setting The Standard
Particle removal mechanisms: The rest of the story
Back in September, we examined how filters work and learned to recite the filtration mantra of interception, impaction and diffusion. We illustrated that particle removal by interception occurs when a section of a particle "runs into" a filter fiber and "sticks"—or, in the special case of sieving, where a particle is too large to fit between two adjacent fibers and "runs into" both.
Electronics
CleanRooms East/PDA SciTech Summit sessions designed to create interaction
E-mail, interactive Web sites and instant messaging have forever changed the way we communicate; and in turn, these pervasive media have changed the landscape of technical conference design forever.
On The Beat
High profile fear factors
Every day, there seems to be a new federal strategy or tip on how to combat terrorism.
Cleanexchange
Trend toward cleaner auto facilities is accelerating
Congratulations on your recent article, "Cleaning up automotive manufacturing" in Cleanrooms magazine (October, pg. 12).
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FEATURES
Cost Effective Fab Capac
Cost-effective fab-capacity expansion
With the semiconductor industry upturns and downturns occurring more frequently, capacity planning becomes a difficult task. Greenfield expansions can take 18 months or more to put capacity in place, and fab expansions can take up to 12 months.
Solid State Lighting The
Solid-state lighting: The dawn of a new day?
The automobile replacing the horse and buggy; the electric light bulb replacing the oil lamp; digital replacing analog. Some contamination-control industry watchdogs believe the inevitable transition from fluorescent and incandescent lamps to solid-state lighting (SSL) will be a technological milestone of similar significance for cleanroom owners.
Special Report
Stuck in the EH&S spotlight
For a high-profile industry that gets its share of criticism on the environmental health and safety (EH&S) front, the semiconductor community has, for the past 12 years, operated under a self-imposed safety standard called SEMI S2.
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