Who else here measures stuff in [b]angstroms[/b]?

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[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Who else here measures stuff in [b]angstroms[/b]?

Posted: 3/17/2002 8:25:25 AM EDT

Just wondering....

Posted: 3/17/2002 8:27:07 AM EDT

[#1]

Only during dark skies.

Posted: 3/17/2002 8:30:55 AM EDT

[#2]

Occasional thin film substrates for microwave hybrids. We're slowly getting out of substrates. Looking for a decent vendor.

Actually, we more typically use microinches. No particular reason.

Posted: 3/17/2002 8:33:15 AM EDT

[#3]

My wife, When it's Really cold outside! [BD]

Tall Shadow

Posted: 3/17/2002 8:33:28 AM EDT

[#4]

I do. Mostly done in thin film deposition and sputtering processes.

Posted: 3/17/2002 11:24:56 AM EDT

[#5]

I do. I work in the semiconductor business, and was a thin films/sputtering process engineer.

For those wondering, 1 angstrom = 1/10th of a nanometer, or 1E-10 meters. Pretty small, really [:)]

Posted: 3/17/2002 11:35:53 AM EDT

[#6]

I do.

My tolerance for Liberal-PC-Racial/Gender-Diversity- Multicultural-AntiAmerican -Socialist BullSh!t is about 0.003A

Posted: 3/17/2002 11:39:41 AM EDT

[#7]

I think LordTrader does... when he is trying to figure out if those damn pills he bought really work. [}:D]

Posted: 3/17/2002 11:45:01 AM EDT

[#8]

I do, every Friday on my damn Physical Chemistry quizzes, cause my professor hates nanometers.

Kharn

Posted: 3/17/2002 12:20:42 PM EDT

[#9]

Quoted:
I think LordTrader does... when he is trying to figure out if those damn pills he bought really work. [}:D]

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I felt that from here! [:D]

Posted: 3/17/2002 12:28:37 PM EDT

[#10]

How many fulongs in a fortnight?

Posted: 3/17/2002 12:33:01 PM EDT

[#11]

Quoted:
How many fulongs in a fortnight?

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Depends on how far you travel!

As for angstroms I do, job related. Who here measures in stones (no kidding)?

Posted: 3/17/2002 3:22:58 PM EDT

[#12]

You people and your weird measurements...

My car gets fourty rods to the hogshead and that's the way I like it.

Posted: 3/17/2002 3:50:42 PM EDT

[#13]

Forty rods to the hogshead? You must be firkin kidding!

Posted: 3/17/2002 5:23:34 PM EDT

[#14]

The job I had before this one, we used to measure metal coatings in Angstroms all the time. Ǻ

Posted: 3/17/2002 6:05:51 PM EDT

[#15]

Mathematically speaking any length can be measured in angstroms. You can also measure a molecule and give the answer in AU's (astro. units) if it suits your purpose. All depends on how it needs to be visualized and what the application is.

Posted: 3/17/2002 8:01:54 PM EDT

[#16]

Any of you guys sputter on something other than chips?

Posted: 3/17/2002 8:38:34 PM EDT

[#17]

I do occasionally, more often in microns or nanometers, though. Angstroms for layer thicknesses, microns or nanometers for width and distance measurements. I do IC failure analysis. I spend plenty of days looking through a microscope of one type or another.

Posted: 3/17/2002 8:41:46 PM EDT

[#18]

I used to do sputtering and silicon and germanium epitaxy, but most of that stuff was outsourced a few years ago. I moved into IC design to remain gainfully employed. I sorta miss working with deadly 100KW RF generators and the most toxic chemicals known to mankind...

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