Motorola Clean Room White Gloves
notes: label: Description
content: These white gloves were worn by an employee at Motorola's Bipolar Manufacturing Centre and its MOS-6 wafer fab (semi-conductor factory) in Mesa, Arizona. The gloves are part of a ‘clean room suit’ which also consists of a jumpsuit, leggings/boots, and a hood. A clean room is made up of more than 1,200 factory tools that take pizza-size silicon wafers and eventually turn them into hundreds of computer chips. Clean room workers wear bunny suits to keep lint, hair and skin flakes off the wafers. Clean rooms are usually lit with yellow lights. They are necessary in photolithography to prevent unwanted exposure of photoresist to light of shorter wavelengths.
label: Description
content: The site where these objects were collected from was a chip manufacturing site, which includes Motorola's Bipolar Manufacturing Centre and its MOS-6 wafer fab (semi-conductor factory). Motorola acquired the Mesa site in 1967 and began wafer fabrication in its original Bipolar-1 fab in 1969. Other fabrication lines were added to the site over the next 12 years. The MOS-6 fab began production in 1981, and the Bipolar Manufacturing Centre (BMC) was created in 1998 with the consolidation of three bipolar production lines into one facility.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: associated place
content: United States: Arizona, Phoenix
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content: Work and Industry: Mechanical and Civil Engineering
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Motorola, Incorporated
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1995.0096.04
label: catalog number
content: 1995.0096.04
label: accession number
content: 1995.0096
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Gloves
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 8.25 x 5;