What does Semicon have in common with Aerospace?
As an electronical engineer working at a company considered as a mechanical solutions provider, people ask me what are you doing there? Well that is simple in some way, as a solution provider you need to understand the needs of your customer, and maybe connect things that are (not so) obvious.
In the electronics and especially the semiconductor market, with miniaturization come more challenges. You need to work more precise and vibrations in every chain are becoming a bigger challenge.
Where low frequency vibrations are relative easy to dampen are the high frequency micro vibrations hard to measure and dampen. This is were we have a link to Aerospace where we as Kistler have been in measuring chains for micro vibrations for decades. And for the industry in general we have produced sensors that can in a solid steel object measure micro deformation telling you the force or calculate the wear of a solid object.
We see more and more that the demanding specification and applications in Aerospace can also be applied to the field of Semiconductors or electronics manufacturing. As an engineer there is noting more challenging and pleasing to be involved with these high tech applications. It means that I have the opportunity to learn everyday. And that not by myself but with colleagues and customers.
We have been found in multiple applications, like flying probes for functional testing(force), grinding wafers(force in 3d), moving wafers(acceleration), cooling water vibrations(pressure) and in molding dies(pressure) that are deviates of measurements in the Aerospace.
The next chapter for us is to focus more on vibrations in Semicon and electronics and I would like to challenge the readers to find more applications with vibrations like we did on the Airbus Baluga.
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