Dress Code for the Microelectronics Industry
The immense power of microelectronics technology in aerospace, defense, and industrial automation is a well-known fact. Unmanned aerial vehicles can fly freely in the sky; artificial satellites, spacecraft, and space shuttles can accurately launch, fly, and locate themselves, automatically transmitting various information back to the ground. The widespread use of computers and various sensing technologies in industry saves manpower, increases automation and processing precision, and greatly improves labor productivity.
Do you know how rigorous the manufacturing process is for the chips used in these microelectronic devices? Clean production workspaces require anti-static measures. This is mainly because the mechanical effects of static electricity cause airborne dust particles to adhere to electronic components such as silicon wafers (components of chips), seriously affecting the quality of microelectronic chips. Therefore, workers are required to wear anti-static coveralls when entering the production workshop. Anti-static work clothes made by incorporating conductive fibers into synthetic fabrics utilize two mechanisms based on charge leakage and neutralization. The charge is discharged to the ground through the conductive fibers; or, if not grounded, it is neutralized by the weak corona discharge of the conductive fibers.
Microelectronics technology is quietly entering aviation, aerospace, industry, agriculture, and national defense, and is also quietly entering every household. At the same time, it represents a new technological engineering project for us to understand and prevent static electricity.