Class 100 Clean Room

Roughly speaking, "Class 100" means fewer than 100 contaminant particles per million in the air (there are a few caveats, but this is a good rule of thumb). Special filters hum continuously to achieve this inside the Berkeley Microlab. Such cleanliness can only be maintained if lab users wear special clean-room clothing: a "bunny suit", hair cap, booties, and latex gloves are worn at all times.

Here is a picure of me in my Microlab attire:

Additional clothing must be worn when working with harmful chemicals. Here I am handling ethylene diamine-- I am wearing a respirator, a face shield, and special chemically-resistant gloves and lab apron. (It's really a human in there, not a Stormtrooper).

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