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  • WHERE I WORK

I work in an ultra-clean room on ultra-small chips

Luis Fonseca leads research into micro-, nano- and photonic chip technologies that could kill cancer cells, protect the environment and facilitate space research.
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    1. Patricia Maia Noronha is a freelance writer in Lisbon, Portugal.

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Luis Fonseca in full protective clothing in a clean room with yellow lighting. He is looking through a microscope

Luis Fonseca is director of the Institute of Microelectronics of Barcelona in Spain. Credit: Guillermo Gutierrez Carrascal for Nature

The Institute of Microelectronics of Barcelona, in Spain, where we research and develop micro- and nanotechnology, hosts the largest ‘clean room’ in southern Europe, at 1,500 square metres. A clean room is a controlled environment where pollutants such as dust, airborne microorganisms and aerosol particles are filtered out.

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Nature 615, 758 (2023)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-00795-7

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