$7M+ in 3D optical microscope orders go to Bruker
Tucson, AZ—Including a recent $3M order for 3D microscopes for display testing, Bruker’s Nano Surfaces Division has now received more than $7M in total orders for its Bruker SP9900+ high-throughput high density interconnect (HDI) substrate metrology system, which is a large-format 3D optical microscope specially designed for the semiconductor packaging industry. Bruker says dramatic improvements in inspection throughput are provided by the system’s areal coverage of up to 600 square millimeters and traverse speeds up to 50 millimeters per second.
"Manufacturers of multichip modules (MCM) and high pin count semiconductor chips are continually increasing panel sizes, reducing feature sizes and increasing the pin count of their products, which creates new challenges in process control for high-volume production," said Mark R. Munch, president, Bruker MAT Group and Bruker Nano Surfaces Division. "The most important areas typically involve measurement of traces, vias, and interconnects, as well as the surface roughness of copper and Ajinomoto build-up film. Working closely with our customers, we've been able to reduce the 'time to measurement' for these critical inspection challenges to less than one half of previous generation systems."
"The new SP9900+ provides radical improvements in measurement speed due to its faster traverse speeds, faster autofocusing, faster camera, revolutionary fixture-loading mechanism and augmented auto intensity function," added Rob Loiterman, executive VP and GM of Bruker's Stylus and Optical Metrology Business. "We've optimized the system to maximize factory throughput while ensuring the most accurate measurements which should help our customers improve yield and keep lowering the cost of consumer electronics."
SOURCE: Bruker; www.bruker.com/news-records/single-view/article/bruker-wins-over-7-million-in-sp9900-3d-optical-microscope-orders.html
Gail Overton | Senior Editor (2004-2020)
Gail has more than 30 years of engineering, marketing, product management, and editorial experience in the photonics and optical communications industry. Before joining the staff at Laser Focus World in 2004, she held many product management and product marketing roles in the fiber-optics industry, most notably at Hughes (El Segundo, CA), GTE Labs (Waltham, MA), Corning (Corning, NY), Photon Kinetics (Beaverton, OR), and Newport Corporation (Irvine, CA). During her marketing career, Gail published articles in WDM Solutions and Sensors magazine and traveled internationally to conduct product and sales training. Gail received her BS degree in physics, with an emphasis in optics, from San Diego State University in San Diego, CA in May 1986.