Lint-Free Paper

Went to A* Institute of Materials Research ad Engineering, as part of National Science Challenge

We went in two taxis, and Jem, Dean and Swapnil got los in the NUS campus. Then when we finally found them, Swapnil had left his wallet in the cab, so we had to call the cab back.

Then the NSC people wanted to take an extremely cheesy scene of our entering the IMRE building for the TV show. When we finally started, the presenter was terrible, and the presentation was awful. The presenter was not confident, and the slides were not visually appealing.

Getting into the lab was extremely troublesome. Basically you need to gown up until all you can see are your eyes, and even that has goggles put over it. Then you have to get blasted with air to dislodge dust particles, and walk over a sticky floor that removes dirt from your lab shoes.

And you can’t use normal paper to write inside the lab, you have to use lint-free wax paper. They are so obsessed about particle contamination.

And no photos, because your camera might have dust particles on it :(

We were having a tour about solid state lighting and next generation LED technology. Apparently LEDs are manufactured using a vapor deposition process. When it got to the part about nanoscale etching of the p-n junction, they use a vacummized plasma chamber.

And the vacuumized plasma chamber is impossible tiny. And there are windows to look inside.

The cost of one vapor deposition device exceeds 2 million US dollars :)

Had fun laughing at Jem and the glass door :) Well lets just say there was a rather large sign that said “PULL” :P

Ok actually there was also a button for a magnetic lock XD