A Powerpoint presentation for the Tiny Particles, Big Problems! program on nisenet.org

1. TINY PARTICLES, BIG PROBLEMS!

3. What is nano?

5. Why work in clean rooms?

6. Computer chip with nano-sized features

7. Silicon wafers with many tiny computer chips

8. Dust on a computer chip

9. How are clean rooms kept clean?

10. Furniture lets air flow through

11. Supplies don’t release fibers or chemicals

12. Trash cans sort and vent waste

13. Who works in clean rooms?

14. Nanoscientists Tejal Desai Antje Baeumner Stanley Williams

16. Image sources Courtesy of NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Courtesy of IBM iStockphoto.com Image copyright Dennis Kunkel Microscopy, Inc. Sciencenter, Ithaca, NY

17. Image sources (continued) Courtesy of Tejal Desai and University of California San Francisco Courtesy of Stanley Williams and Hewlett-Packard Courtesy of Antje Baeumner and Cornell University

18. This project was supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. ESI-0532536. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Foundation.