Most automated quality inspection technologies involve machine vision systems and, increasingly, aspects of artificial intelligence-powered software to speed the identification of part defects. But ...

For the best results with SAM systems, pay close attention to both the digitizer characteristics and the signal path. Automated inspection techniques are widely used in the semiconductor industry for ...

View of cantilever on an atomic force microscope (magnification 1000x). Credit: SecretDisc GFDL, CC-BY-SA-3.0 Long before the development of AFM, Quate’s research had made waves in microscopy. 1978 ...

Motivated by the limitations of scanning approaches to photoacoustic microscopy, an international group supervised by Emmanuel Bossy of Université Grenoble Alpes experimented with structured ...

Traditional ultrasonic imaging systems usually transmit broadband ultrasonic pulses through the full sample volume under study. By analyzing these pulses, researchers can measure sample thickness, ...

Microscopes are of three basic types: optical, electron (or ion), and scanning probe. The modern optical or light microscope was developed in the mid-19th century. Optical microscopes use transparent ...

Ultrasound’s sensitivity to material interfaces makes it useful in screening plastic-encapsulated microcircuits (PEMS) and other components used in the assembly of medical electronics products. The ...

Acoustic microscopy has the capability to detect gap thicknesses in materials as small as 0.01 micron. A contract manufacturer (CM) assembling PC boards began experiencing electrical failures that ...