December 17, 2024
Ultra-high purity (UHP) gases are essential across various industries, but they play an especially important role in advanced semiconductor processes. Semiconductors serve as the backbone for numerous industries, powering medical devices, microelectronics, automotive technologies, and more. Gases are used for inerting, plasma etching, deposition, annealing, and other processes within the semiconductor manufacturing workflow. But without […]
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February 15, 2023
Hydrogen is used in many processes across the semiconductor industry, like annealing, epitaxial growth, lithography, and as a carrier gas for hydride dopants. Hydrogen gas usage is only increasing, and along with that comes constraints on supply chains and markets. Hydrogen generation is also becoming more prevalent in order to mitigate traditional supply chain issue, […]
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May 30, 2022
There are several drivers for innovation in gas purification today, as the speed of technology accelerates. The semiconductor industry is just one area where gas purification is critical, as high purity gas helps create these essential materials in a world that’s demanding more of them than ever before. In a recent report, Deloitte expects the […]
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November 8, 2021
Precise and reliable gas delivery is a crucial part of semiconductor manufacturing. And with today’s increased costs of manufacturing semiconductors and the recent semiconductor shortage, time can simply not be wasted on compromised gas purity. Semiconductor manufacturing is a complex process where multiple gases in varying flow rates are carefully delivered to process chambers in […]
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September 20, 2019
Over the past few weeks, we’ve been exploring various properties of gas purity. In our first post, we discussed the three primary technologies leveraged in physical gas separation. In our second post, we shifted our focus to gas purification media and the specific trace impurities they eliminate. In this, our final issue of our “The […]
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August 28, 2019
From semiconductors and electronics, to clean energy and solar, industrial manufacturing, and universities, myriad industries rely on high or ultra high purity process gases to support their mission-critical work. In our first issue of our “Properties of Gas Purity” blog series, we covered three primary technologies leveraged for physical gas separation, each ranging in the […]
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August 14, 2019
Gas purity is critical for a diverse array of applications and industries, ranging from semiconductor and electronics, to clean energy and solar, industrial manufacturing, and universities and research labs. Over the next few weeks, we’ll be releasing a series of blog posts focused on three key aspects of gas purification. In this, the first issue […]
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March 28, 2019
While there are a number of factors that contribute to a system’s ability to achieve the highest levels of pure reliability, there is one element that is integral to enforcing purity standards: the gas purifier.
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