ESI has the necessary capabilities to examine the removal of a wide variety of contaminants from substrates of technical and commercial interest. The facilities include a 1,200 ft² Precision Cleaning Research Laboratory, and a 2,000 ft² Manufacturing Development Facility.

Precision cleaning studies are performed in a Class 100 clean room. Within this clean room, there is a Class 10 work station for especially critical work. Available cleaning equipment includes a variety of ultrasonic baths and a spray station. This equipment allows a wide range of cleaning parameters to be examined, including composition of the cleaning medium, temperature, mode and intensity of contact.

The cleaning equipment is supported by extensive on-line and off-line analytic instrumental capabilities, which include:

On-line Sensors with computerized data acquisition

• Met-One LB 1010 Inline Particle counters
• UV-Vis Thermoseparations detector
• Cole-Palmer conductivity probe
  

Off-line Analytical Instruments

• Perkin-Elmer 1600 Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrophotometer
• Shimadzu Model 1601 UV/Vis Spectrophotometer
• Waters HPLC System with Model 480 UV Variable Detector
• Wild Dark Field/Bright Field Reflecting Microscope, with Polaroid Camera
• Nikon Binocular Inspection Microscope
• Microscope Image Capture System (Cohu 4910 CCD Camera, Scion LG-3 Frame Grabber, Apple G3 Microcomputer, NIH Image software)
• AID Analytical Balances
• Radiometer Research pH Meter, with assorted electrodes
• Fluorometric Surface Analysis Booth with Cool-Pix Camera and Image Pro Supporting Software
  Agilent Technologies Gas Chromatography System
• Hewlett-Packard 5890 Series II GC equipped with a Flame Ionization Detector (FID) detector and Flame Photometric Detector (FPD)
  Hewlett-Packard GC ChemStationTM Revision A.0601 (403) software