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Combat Climate Change with Window Glazing
Becoming energy efficient is more in-demand than ever in the current economic and environmental climate, with the focus primarily on becoming more resourceful and finding long-term solutions for limiting the impact that even the most rudimentary day-to-day actions have on the environment. Choose a professional company like window installers Amersham for your expected needs. [Read more…] about Combat Climate Change with Window Glazing
The Access Control Solution To Building Management
Building and facility managers have the timely tasks of coordinating building access and security. Issuing lost or stolen key cards and waiting on tradesmen can be alleviated with Doordeck. An NFC keyless entry and digital visitor management solution that allows time to be given back to the unsung heroes behind commercial real estate.
The regular tenant doesn’t fully understand the role of their building or facility manager. They are tasked with coordinating tradesmen, cleaners, and deliveries, as well as solving potential issues that haven’t come up yet like potential compromises to a building’s security from lost or stolen credentials.
Save management time with Doordeck
In a world without Doordeck, our Building Managers and their teams have to spend a large portion of their time logging lost or stolen key cards, issuing replacements and new credentials. Time that can be spent on other important building operations.
Installing Doordeck can significantly reduce the time it takes for these management tasks asscoiated with access, whether you are using our app directly or with Doordeck’s SDK integration into existing white labelled company apps.
Seamless Installation for the ability to manage from anywhere at anytime
Doordeck’s NFC keyless entry solution makes touch-free entry to your building faster, more secure and more reliable. On top of this addition to the ability to issue digital visitor passes even without the use of our app. But what makes our app particularly scalable is that building managers won’t need to install any hardware. They won’t need to rip out any existing systems. They certainly won’t need to allocate funds to costly engineer visits or scheduled system downtimes it is all done over the cloud.
Doordeck is ready to use straight away and without the need to access the site – the installation can be done from anywhere with an internet connection.
The fact that Doordeck is the world’s only keyless access control aggregator that integrates with all major access control systems only further complements its adaptability.
Furthermore, all of this is super secure. I’m talking military-grade encryption, creating peace of mind for building managers.
Remote visitor management touchless solutions
It is not just the initial Doordeck software installation that is super quick. It’s its day-to-day usage as well. With Doordeck’s remote credentialing feature forget about organising the printing and encoding of hundreds of plastic key cards and key fobs each year. The only thing needed to provide a user with access to a door or doors is an email address. All the new user will need is a smartphone – they don’t even need to download our app if they don’t want to, a browser will do just fine, as there is a QR code option as well. They can scan the QR code in their smartphone’s browser and if they’ve been granted access to the Doordeck enabled door they’ll be able to enter. Alternatively, the visitor can download the Doordeck app for even faster entry using NFC Keyless Entry. This method is preferred for regular visitors or tradesmen.
For more details on how Doordeck can save your time managing your building through is cloud based solution visit www.doordeck.com
Silicon Etching An Overview of the Microfabrication Process
Take a good look at the smartphone you carry with you every day, everywhere. If you’re like the vast majority of people, your daily activities revolve around – or at least depend on – that ultra-powerful handheld device. Ever wonder how it works?
Did you know that a smartphone has several thousand times more computing power than NASA’s Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC)? The AGC is what guided Apollo 11 to the first moon landing in 1969. Think of that! It’s truly incredible.
Your smartphone today is an astounding wonder of technology. And the lifeblood of the engineering wizardry in that phone is…silicon. Cue the mental connection with Silicon Valley. Read on to learn how silicon etching makes this all possible.
Why Use Silicon?
The simple element silicon (Si), and the silicon wafers made from it is what drives this technology and makes it affordable for the average consumer. That is key!
Silicon, one of the most abundant elements on Earth, allows for the low-cost manufacture of complex microprocessors. Those minuscule marvels perform the gazillions of calculations needed to navigate while driving or to use Google search.
Silicon has special properties that make it a semiconductor, meaning that silicon conducts electricity under some conditions and acts as an insulator under others. Etched silicon wafers can amplify tiny electrical signals and speed them along.
There are materials other than silicon used in some applications, but silicon is by far the most widely used substrate in today’s consumer marketplace.
What Is Silicon Etching?
Simply stated, silicon etching chemically removes layers from a wafer’s surface as part of the microfabrication process, creating a pattern on the surface according to what is and what isn’t “masked”. Each wafer undergoes several etching steps before it’s finished.
There are different methods of silicon wafer etching. Here are the major types:
Wet Chemical Etching
- Uses liquid chemicals as etchants to remove the silicon substrate by immersion in the liquid
- Isotropic (orientation independent)
- The most common technique for wet etching
- The material is removed uniformly from all directions
- Anisotropic (orientation dependent)
- The material is removed uniformly from a vertical direction
- Advantages of wet chemical etching are:
- Simple equipment
- Reliable
- High etching rate (good for high production)
- High selectivity
- Disadvantages of wet chemical etching are:
- Requires a large amount of etchant chemicals because of substrate immersion
- Chemicals must be replenished often to maintain etching rate
Potassium Hydroxide (KOH) Etching
- A type of anisotropic (orientation dependent) wet etching using KOH as a hot aqueous caustic solution
- Use of dangerous chemicals requires great caution – cannot perform alone
Dry Etching (e.g., Plasma Etching)
- Uses gases or plasmas as etchants to remove the silicon substrate
- Advantages of dry etching are:
- Reduced material consumption
- Costs less to dispose of spent products than wet etching
- Disadvantages of dry etching are:
- Can’t be used where high anisotropy (substrate removal is one direction) is needed
We Are Silicon Etching Experts!
We produce a full line of automated wet etching process equipment. We have a global presence serving the needs of the semiconductor, solar, biotechnology, and aerospace industries in the Americas, Europe, and Asia.
Contact us and let us answer any questions you may have on wet silicon etching process equipment, systems integration, or any related topic.
Balanced City Planning
Modern cities are amazing places that are constantly evolving. They are in a constant state of flux.
As the needs of the people and businesses in them change, they change too. [Read more…] about Balanced City Planning