Positioning Equipment Videos

  1. Increasing Semiconductor Wafer Yield With Wafer Stealth Dicing Methods 7/18/2022

    The production of computer chips starts with the separation of individual dies from the semiconductor wafer. Laser dicing has many advantages over physical cutting equipment.

  2. Higher Precision Laser Seam Welding 7/18/2022

    Sensitive electronic assemblies and micro-systems are sealed hermetically to increase lifetime and performance. Laser seam welding is the preferred process to allow very accurate seams with small radii. Coordinating galvos with motion stages for the best results, is made easy with latest software, motion hardware and motion controllers from PI.

  3. Higher Performance Wafer Metrology And Semiconductor Inspection 7/18/2022

    Before an electronic chip can be purchased, 400 to 800 production steps have been run through. At all critical points during manufacturing, inspection processes are essential to ensure the high quality and reliability of the final products. This video provides more on wafer inspection and metrology with air bearings and piezo nanopositioning stages.

  4. Enabling The Production Of Photonic Devices W/ Faster Alignment Automation Stages & Algorithms 7/18/2022

    Scott Jordan, Physik Instrumente’s Head of Photonics, explains how PI’s motion systems enable simultaneous active alignment of several optical components achieving 99% reduction in alignment times.

  5. Video: Nanopositioners, What Are They Good For? 6/9/2022

    This presentation, from the APS March 2021 Meeting by Shannon Ghorbani, will give an overview of what a nanopositioning system is, and more importantly, how this versatile tool can be used across a range of physics applications.

  6. Addressing The Unique Challenges Of Silicon Photonics Production 1/26/2022

    In a follow-up to our first video with Scott Jordan at PI from day 1 at Photonics West 2022, we bring you part 2. He further drove the point home regarding the need for solutions featuring high-speed automation, and high-throughput and cost-effective manufacturing, and showed us tangible examples of how PI is rising to the challenge.

  7. The Challenges Of Silicon Photonics Production 1/25/2022

    On day one of Photonics West 2022, Scott Jordan met with us to discuss the throughput-oriented architecture the photonics industry must adopt in order to address the silicon photonics production bottleneck.

  8. Video: V-508 Linear Translation Stage Demo 1/19/2022

    The demo shows a closed-loop XY-table in high speed scan and alignment. These V-508 linear translation stages are run by an ACS industrial motion controller with intelligent alignment algorithms.

  9. Silicon Photonics Wafer Prober: 6-DOF-Hexapod Pivot Point Demo 12/23/2021

    The pivot point demo shows the advantages of a programmable pivot point in hexapod parallel kinematics active alignment systems. The PI H-811 Hexapod 6-axis motion system and P-616 piezo nano-scanner are mounted on a Cascade Microtech wafer prober.

  10. Hexapod Pivot Point Demo 11/19/2021

    PI's Hexapod 6DOF Parallel Motion platforms have a very useful feature for active alignment and optimization applications - a user programmable pivot point. A high performance hexapod motion controller handles all the necessary coordinate transformations, very easy for the user.