The investigation of failures involves taking apart failed devices, tracking down a problem, and establishing the root cause for the failure. At the simplest level, failure-analysis (FA) labs answer ...

It is a crucial analytical field that is able to enhance the profitability and efficiency of polymeric products and supports research and development applications of polymer materials. In severe cases ...

A crucial stage in the research and development (R&D) process is understanding how and why materials degrade and ultimately falter. Polymers often fail in short timescales compared to the lifespan of ...

When a chip malfunctions it’s the job of the failure analysis engineer to determine how it failed or significantly deviated from its key performance metrics. The cost of failure in the field can be ...

The first step for semiconductor chips is visual inspection using an optical microscope or electrical measurements. 2 Mechanical probing, electron beams, emission microscopy, liquid crystal, etc., are ...

Once confined to analyzing returns, it now is shifting left and right as more data analytics are applied to both digital and analog. Failure analysis is rapidly becoming a complex, costly and ...

Alfa Chemistry Testing Lab offers its failure analysis services to multiple industry sectors including rubber manufacturing, composite materials production, nanomaterial development, alloy creation, ...

Defect correlation analysis is a new approach in IC failure analysis technology. Proper failure analysis can provide useful and cost-saving data for companies in control of their design and ...