FTIR and EDX spectrum library of contaminants found on a HDD and their potential sources

A system for identification of a source of a physical contaminant, said system comprising:

• means for transforming a generated image into a waveshape representative of composition of said physical contaminant;
• means for accessing a material data set, said material data set comprising information associated with materials used in said component subject to a failure analysis process;
• means for accessing a source data set, said source data set comprising information associated with sources of said materials;
• means for comparing said waveshape with said information of said stored data collection;
• means for identifying a source of said physical contaminant from said information of said data collection;
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• means for storing said material data set and said source data set in a data storage device.

A computer-implemented method for physical contaminant source determination, said computer-implemented method comprising:

• generating, using a computer system, a waveshape image representing a physical contaminant associated with a component in a failure analysis process;
• comparing, using a computer system, said waveshape image with a computer-implemented data collection, said computer-implemented data collection comprising:
• a material data set comprising information, stored in a data storage device of a computer system, associated with materials used in said component subject to said failure analysis process;
• a source data set comprising information, stored in a data storage device of a computer system, associated with sources of said materials;
• an image data set comprising transformed waveshape representations, stored in a data storage device of a computer system, of said materials associated with implementation of said component;
• determining, using a computer system, a composition of said physical contaminant;
• and
• determining, using a computer system, a source of said physical contaminant.