A crucial stage in the research and development (R&D) process is understanding how and why materials degrade and ultimately falter. Polymers often fail in short timescales compared to the lifespan of ...

When a chip malfunctions it’s the job of the failure analysis engineer to determine how it failed or significantly deviated from its key performance metrics. The cost of failure in the field can be ...

A Rocket Lab electron lifts off May 15 from the company’s New Zealand launch site. The launch failed minutes later when the second stage’s engine appeared to shut down seconds after ignition. Credit: ...

The first step for semiconductor chips is visual inspection using an optical microscope or electrical measurements. 2 Mechanical probing, electron beams, emission microscopy, liquid crystal, etc., are ...

Defect correlation analysis is a new approach in IC failure analysis technology. Proper failure analysis can provide useful and cost-saving data for companies in control of their design and ...

Applications in NVIDIA’s failure analysis laboratory. Cambridge, UK – TeraView, the pioneer and leader in terahertz technology and solutions, is pleased to announce that NVIDIA has presented two ...

SAN DIEGO --- Just about everybody has dropped a cell phone at one time or another. The engineers at Nokia's testing lab in San Diego have seen and heard all the phone disaster stories and have ...

A complete oil analysis requires only 12 ml of oil and no chemicals or solvents for sample preparation or cleaning. The whole analysis, including all four tests, takes around 5 - 7 minutes, depending ...