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Thermal Controls to Optimize Semiconductor Wafer Manufacturing
How to Optimize Semiconductor Wafer Manufacturing Yield With Proper Thermal Control Brian Rudary, Applications Solutions Engineering Lead, Swagelok, and Doug Nordstrom, Product Manager, Swagelok Semiconductor wafer manufacturing grows more challenging by the day. As global demand for chips skyro...
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Know Your Process Analyzers: Raman Analyzers
Know Your Analyzer Types: Raman Analyzers Mike Strobel, Business Development Manager, Swagelok Know Your Analyzer Raman Analyzer Coming Soon... Photometric IR & UV Analyzers Process Density Analyzers Process Oxygen Analyzers Process Moisture Analyzers Accurate process analysis is esse...
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What Are the Different Types of Tube Fittings?
Your Guide to Choosing the Right Small-Bore Tube Fittings for Your Application Reliable small-bore fluid systems should be designed and constructed with high-quality components—and one of the most important is the small-bore fitting . Used at critical connection points, fittings should provide leak...
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Measuring and Controlling Hydrogen Flow
Measuring and Controlling Hydrogen Flow Hydrogen fuel cells hold great promise as a source of energy and power. They can be used in a wide variety of applications, from transportation and material handling to stationary, portable, and emergency backup power. Their only byproduct is water, so they r...
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How Fluid Systems Impact the Cost of Semiconductor Fabs
Why High-Performing Fluid Systems Matter in New Semiconductor Fab Construction Masroor Malik, Lead Solutions Specialist, Semiconductor When building a new semiconductor fabrication facility (or “fab”), there are many considerations, including speed to market, material and installation standardizat...
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Safe, Efficient, and Accurate Ammonia Sampling
How to Achieve Safer, More Accurate, and More Efficient Ammonia Sampling Anhydrous ammonia is commonly used by chemical plants and refineries in the production of fertilizers, plastics, textiles, petroleum, and more. In these applications, ammonia must typically have a water content between 0.2% an...
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Critical Components for Forward-Thinking Fuel Systems
How New Flyer Develops Forward-Thinking Fuel Systems with Swagelok New Flyer is the largest bus maker in North America, employing more than 2,300 people at its manufacturing hub in Anniston, Alabama. Citizens around the world depend on its buses for reliable transportation, meaning New Flyer doesn’...
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3 Rules for Analyzer Accuracy
3 Rules for Analyzer Accuracy Stacey Phillips, Field Engineering Manager (Americas) In most applications, operators trust analyzer results to indicate whether their product is meeting specifications. But when analyzer results are not accurately reflecting an end product’s characteristics, it’s lik...
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Why Materials Science Training Matters to Oil and Gas Instrumentation Engineers
Why Materials Science Training Matters to Oil and Gas Instrumentation Engineers Brian Van Valkenburg, Training & Services Marketing Manager As the offshore oil and gas market has evolved, the stakes for reliable, leak-free operation have only become higher. Oil and gas operators looking to maintai...
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Tackling Practical Performance Issues in Fluid and Sampling Systems
Tackling Practical Performance Issues in Fluid and Sampling Systems Phil Mathews, Director of Technical Services, Swagelok Los Angeles In industrial fluid systems and sampling systems there are six primary goals, three analytical and three operational. The analytical goals are a sample that’s comp...