Class 1000 Clean Rooms

Class 1000 Clean Rooms

Class 1000 clean rooms are the second lowest classification in Federal Standard 209 standards and never exceed 1000 particles per cubic foot. Its ISO equivalent standard is ISO 6. Class 1000 clean rooms are used for inspection, patterning and integration tools like non-contract profilometry, flip-chip integration, thin-film deposition and laser micromachining. Since they are lower level clean rooms, they may not have an air shower at the entrance and may not require individuals to wear special shoes, although some still do; everyone wears a head-to-toe bunny suit to keep skin and hair particles out.

Acrylic, steel or stainless steel, aluminum or polycarbonate are generally the materials that make up the walls of class 1000 clean rooms. This class of clean rooms can be any of the 3 types-ball room, which are large and open rooms that are parts of the actual building, modular, which is a temporary and small room within a room, and soft wall, where the walls are made of tightly stretched or free-hanging fabric. They may range in size from huge open spaces to tiny chambers. Temperature control and electrostatic discharge control are also possible in this class of clean rooms.