Features:

• Superior removal of any residue on fiber optics and other components especially for high power applications
• Quick dry and solvent free cleaning process
• Designed to clean small surface areas
• Superior to solvent cleaning wiping techniques
• More economical and versatile than snow guns with enclosures
• Cleans a variety of substrates such as glass, metal, etc.
• Removes dust particles, polishing compounds, fingerprints, surface films, and other surface residues
• CO₂ composite spray

Applications:

• Effective cleaning of various high power fiber optic connectors and other components
• Optical element cleaning, optical coating preparation/cleaning
• Electro-optic sensors and medical devices cleaning
• Semiconductor and biomedical components surface cleaning

Product Description:

The OZPEN™ is a versatile, precision, small surface area cleaning system for critical fiber optics and other manufacturing operations. The OZPEN™ generates and propels an adjustable spray of clean dry air or nitrogen containing small CO₂ particles to efficiently remove foreign matter from a surface.

The OZPEN™ replaces or augments conventional solvent-aided wiping cleaning techniques which can spread, smear or shed, or redeposit trace residues and particles over critical surfaces.

The composite spray cleaning technique is a patented process where one can deliver controlled shear stress on surface contaminants using chemically inert, dry CO₂ spray for efficient and effective removal of inorganic and organic surface contamination from critical substrate surfaces.

The cleaning unit delivers a precisely controlled accelerated stream of solid carbon dioxide particles (i.e. snow) at high velocity. The snow is created from the conversion of liquid CO₂ to solid CO₂ particles and CO₂ gas at the spray nozzle. The nozzle, propellant pressure, and temperature are adjusted for optimal cleaning process.

The main method for removal of particulate and other loosely bound contaminants is momentum transfer. In this process, an incoming CO₂ particle strikes a particle on the surface. The resulting force overcomes the force holding the particle to the surface, and the CO₂ gas spray/propellant plume then carries the particle away. This unique dry process can remove very small particles (< 100 nm in size) without the need for using other wet cleaning techniques.

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