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MEMS TESTING AND RELIABILITY

Strengthening your MEMS designs by ensuring quality and product longevity.

What are you doing to address the reliability of your MEMS product?
Eliminating just one failure mode of a MEMS device can save months of development time and hundreds of thousands of dollars of unnecessary redesign, fabrication, and test expenses. MEMS devices can have unexpected size-specific failures. For example:


Arcing on MEMS contact
residual stresses can lead to distortion and reduced product life
presumably benign environments can lead to failure
high-frequency movement can generate fatigue failures
devices can be shock-sensitive
repeated contact leads to stiction and wear
manufacturing resolution can significantly reduce yield
stress relaxation can shift dynamic response

Our quality management system is independently assessed and certified to ISO 9001.

Our Expertise ...

Design and implementation of reliability testing programs

application and device-specific test protocols
failure modes analysis
long-term test programs
design and device verification
actively setting industry standards

 


Advanced metrology to characterize dimensions

interferometry, electron microscopy, device cross sections, Computer Microvision

Shock and high acceleration testing

Accelerated life testing under controlled environments and temperatures

Fatigue testing for accelerated reliability evaluation


Specialized materials testing for mechanical properties

residual stress
elastic modulus
yield strength
ultimate strength
creep
wear

Clean room inspection and test facilities

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