Augusto- Your chances of good results are very high. Standard cleanroom industry HEPA filtered flow hoods meet (ISO 5) performance in standrad laboratories. The next step is to design your process to limit contamination issues. Contact me directly if you have questions or comments. Regards, -- Patrick Roman, M.S. Microsystems Engineer Code 553- Detector Systems Branch Room E042 Building 11 NASA/ Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt,MD 20771 phone: (301) 286-3558 fax: (301) 286-1672 mobile: (202) 294-8602 email: proman@pop500.gsfc.nasa.gov -----Original Message----- From: mems-talk-bounces@memsnet.org [mailto:mems-talk-bounces@memsnet.org]On Behalf Of augusto einsfeldt Sent: Monday, August 23, 2004 12:43 PM To: mems-talk@memsnet.org Subject: [mems-talk] working without clean room Have anyone worked on building an integrated circuit or a MEMS without using a complete clean room for all processes (just a clean process in a filtered air positive pressure room)? Of course the yield may be very low since many dust particles will drop into wafer's surface but I wonder if it will remain high enough to allow process technology test and development (not production). The porpouse of this question is to build argumentation in a discussion regarding potential positive results when building a very low cost facility for first steps in microelectronics' process technology development and training. Thanks in advance, Augusto Einsfeldt _______________________________________________ MEMS-talk@memsnet.org mailing list: to unsubscribe or change your list options, visit http://mail.mems-exchange.org/mailman/listinfo/mems-talk Hosted by the MEMS Exchange, providers of MEMS processing services. Visit us at http://www.memsnet.org/