Semicon-World

The economy drives the market. Where there is demand, there will be someone supplying that demand. Industries exist to turn a profit due to that demand. The electronics industry is huge with so many competitors on every level, with so many products ranging from heavy appliances like air conditioners, refrigerators, washing machines, to small and sleek gadgets like smartphones, earbuds, smart watches and the like. All these electronic goods have a never ending demand, so much so that the industry is facing issues in meeting it. All of these appliances have one thing in common: they all run on semiconductors. "Well just make more semiconductor manufacturing plants", will be your first thought; if only it was that simple. The semiconductor industry manages to find itself in quite a unique position, the ecosystem surrounding it is a tremendous interdisciplinary and international achievement. The raw materials and equipment required for running one fabrication plant on a commercia...

In all your time on the internet you must have come across a term called ‘semiconductor manufacturing’ or an Instagram reel telling you about the size of a microprocessor. You might have wondered in what conditions does this manufacturing occur. A nanometer is a billionth of a meter, at that point you are closer to an atom than to a dust particle. Controlling the conditions of your space becomes very crucial when working at such unimaginably small scales. So where does the magic happen? A clean room is a room that is first and foremost clean. Wow Arjun, thank you for stating the obvious we would never have figured it out. I tell you most of the stuff you see that you might think is complicated has a very obvious name. The thing that actually scares everyone are the scientists’ and physicists’ names attached to the effect/phenomenon. The dirtiest entities inside the room will be us, humans. We carry dust, dirt, grime, even our hair is enough to kill any device we may be trying to fabr...