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Following an excellent response to the LuxorAu Sputter Coater communication we issued at the beginning of November, Lambda Photometrics have decided to respond to this and offer you the chance to trial the LuxorAu Sputter Coater within the safety of your own facility. CLICK HERE to request a demonstration. We are expecting a high demand for this offer so please contact us soon to avoid delay and...

One of the truly unique features of the PHOTON RT spectrophotometer is the capability to run broadband measurements. The most sophisticated configuration offers an unsurpassed opportunity to qualify optical coatings continuously from 185nm in the UV to 5200 nm in the MWIR.  Throughout EssentOptics business history, they have regularly set new benchmarks for broadband measurement capability. Since their first announcement...

We are excited to announce that there will be two presentations featuring VSPARTICLE’s technology at the 2nd Online Material Pioneers Summit! This summit will be opened by VSPARTICLE’s co-founder, Aaike van Vugt, and the full program for the 2nd Material Pioneers Summit here. If you are interested in how VSPARTICLE’s technology can accelerate your research within the fields of heterogeneous...

With a 9GHz frequency range, the Proteus AWG can easily generate WLAN beacon signals in the 5GHz band. In this video, we use MatLab to create a baseband signal, which is downloaded to the instrument. The built-in IQ modulator is used to set the RF transmission frequency which is displayed on the oscilloscope. Also, antenna was attached to the output...

Fizeau interferometry has come a long way in the last decade. Driven by the need to support production-floor applications and challenging test setups, interferometers have adapted to deal with all types of environments, while preserving their key attribute – precision. https://youtu.be/ez5JgYo1CoM Exactly what is possible, and what solutions are out there? This webinar explores that question, focusing on novel approaches and...

Complex asphere metrology ideally suited for production-level volumes. Advances in diamond turning and small-tool deterministic polishing have dramatically increased optical manufacturing capabilities to produce nearly any surface shape. Designers have leveraged these capabilities by increasingly designing aspheric optics into imaging, sensing and laser systems to improve performance and reduce size and weight of optical systems. However, it isn’t just the polishing equipment...

Here are some questions you must ask yourself when buying a new Sputter Coater for SEM sample preparation: Q. Is my trusty 25 years old coater really delivering the coating quality I need in the modern world of microscopy?A. Probably not Q. Is the quality of my SEM images being compromised by my substandard sputter coater performance?A. Definitely/Maybe  Q. Does the best coating quality really...

The synthetic fluoropolymer of tetrafluoroethylene AKA Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) and its analogues are strongly hydrophobic and having low surface energies of less than 18 dyn/cm are perhaps best-known for their non-stick properties. This low surface energy along with PTFE’s high electrical insulating properties can make sputter coating with noble metals prior to SEM a real challenge. Not anymore. Image courtesy of...

This question is of interest to many manufacturers today. Why? Because more of them are making high precision, small-scale components that are critical to the function of a host of end products. A company’s livelihood may mandate that the components they use in their products are uniform, definable, and "high-precision". This is where an understanding of smoothness is helpful. So...

Your invitation... The growing diversity in the used materials in semiconductor packaging provides challenges for achieving good interconnection. Particularly the very soft substrates, such as paper and polymers, and very hard, such as silicon carbide, offer unique challenges to wire-bonding or the formation of vertical interconnects.  Complementary technologies are therefore needed.  Using the prototype of the VSP-P1 NanoPrinter, Joost van Ginkel developed a method...