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• Mechanical Encoders with Extended Cycle Rotation Lives Now Rival Optical Encoders at Much Lower Cost
  As the electronic products industry grows more competitive, manufacturers are seeking greater economy in the manner in which they manufacture, as well as cost effective alternatives to expensive components. For example, the decision whether to utilize mechanical or optical encoders for various...
• MICRO:The 300-mm Imperative, by Gary Gallagher, p.81 (July '99)
  and consistent assembly by using creative design methods, fixtures, gauges, optical inspection, and in-process quality checks. Random acceptable-quality checks have been replaced by 100% dimensional-quality checks that verify a set of key automation interfaces on every FOUP. Polymer shrink rates...
• MICRO: SIA backs cancer study
  bit early to be ramping up for that yet.". Will developments in metrology keep pace with ALD's ascent? Murali Narasimhan, senior director of marketing for the films and surface technology division of KLA-Tencor, sees both pluses and minuses. The standard practice for measuring thin films--optical...
• MICRO: The Hot Button
  at dimensions commensurate with those described in the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors at technology nodes with a half-pitch of <=65 nm will require increasingly complex masks. The extension of optical projection lithography through immersion is placing greater demands on the mask...
• MICRO: Behind the Mask
  using a stand-alone gds2oasis translator. Flat data representation was achieved using a mebes2oasis translation utility. Optical proximity correction (OPC) was performed using Calibre OPCpro. The translation experiments were conducted on a 450-MHz server using a single cpu from Hewlett-Packard...
• MICRO: Archive: Back Issue TOC
  , integrated metrology tool, cleanroom-compatible filters, liquid optical particle counter, storage system/stocker, extractive gas monitor, ESD monitoring system, machine control system, mechanical vacuum pump, field emission SEMs, continuous gas-emission monitor Vendor releases new version of wafer-mapping...
• Using SSA to measure the efficacy of automated defect data gathering
  of America and the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE), where he is a cochairman for the SPIE Conference on Machine Vision Applications in Industrial Inspection. He is also a member of the Defect Reduction Crosscut Technology Working Group for SIA's National Technology Roadmap...
• MICRO:Outlook 2000 (Nov '99)
  , which is one of the key challenges facing defect detection that we are addressing with suppliers. That is only going to get more difficult simply because as you shrink down the feature sizes the inspection tools that we are using right now, especially in the optical arena, must keep pace...
• Taking Shelf Management to New Levels
  , C07A & M07. Coded Switch Type C07 (Concentric). Rotary Binary Switches. DIP Switches. Encoders. Overview. Magnetic/Optical Incremental Encoder Type E50. Mechanical Incremental Encoder Type E33. Mechanical Incremental Encoders Type E20 & E27. Mechanical Dual Concentric Encoder Type E37. Selector...
• Rugged Packaging
  ). Rotary Binary Switches. DIP Switches. Encoders. Overview. Magnetic/Optical Incremental Encoder Type E50. Mechanical Incremental Encoder Type E33. Mechanical Incremental Encoders Type E20 & E27. Mechanical Dual Concentric Encoder Type E37. Selector Switches. Overview. Selector Switch Type 01...

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