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Technical cleanliness: Determining particulate cleanliness in fields ranging from the automotive industry to medical device technology
1. Requirements of particulate cleanliness
The need for high levels of particulate cleanliness is obvious for some products such as integrated circuits (with structural widths currently as low as 22 nm) that are manufactured in the semiconductor industry. However, particulate cleanliness, i.e. the ab…