NEW CLEANROOM OPENS AT BRISTOL UNIVERSITY

摘要

Professor Hugh Brady, Vice-Chancellor and President, has officially opened the new University of Bristol cleanroom. In the highly controlled environment within the cleanroom, the air is continuously filtered and the room's inhabitants move around in ghostly blue body suits that prevent contamination. These extremes of cleanliness are necessary given that a single mote of dust would spell disaster for a device whose scale is less than a thousandth of a millimetre. For such small devices any speck of dust, grit or fluff would be akin to dropping a wrecking ball on your home. The cleanroom houses specialist research tools used by groups across the Faculties of Science and Engineering.