1. Get your motor running, head out on the highway – looking for adventure, and whatever comes your way Gail Flower, editor-in-chief gets a ride from Dick Schedtler, VP AR Marketing. Click here to enlarge image
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2. Old friends at Asymtek warmly welcomed the Roadshow crew. Pictured from left to right: Cindy Curran, marketing communications specialist; Gail Flower; Roberta Foster-Smith, marketing communications manager; Françoise von Trapp, managing editor; Alan Lewis, director of application engineering; and David Barach, group publisher.Click here to enlarge image
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3. John T. Byers, president; and Alec Barbiarz, president business development and co-founder, joined us later for discussion.Click here to enlarge image
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4. We don’t mean to have this much fun on the roadshow – it just happens. Flower, von Trapp, Foster-Smith,and Barach suit up for the facility tour.Click here to enlarge image
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5. Production assembly technicians Alberto Davolos, Dalina Hurta, Sherman Yarborough, and Theresa Greenhill inspect assembly subsystems for the Axiom and Millennium.Click here to enlarge image
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6. Karl Thorpe, production supervisor for Asymtek’s Spectrum product, explains the assembly process to Barach. Click here to enlarge image
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7. Jaynie Park, Sr. applications engineer, demonstrates a jetting system by dispensing UV-cure material in rows of dots to check for consistency.Click here to enlarge image
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1. Palomar Technologies was next on the tour. Here we are with Bruce Hueners, president and Advanced Packaging Advisory Board member; Sophie Moya-Christian, receptionist (left); and Michelle Taylor, marketing services manager (right). Click here to enlarge image
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2. Hueners explained that the laser interferometer for testing and calibrating transducers measures micro-inches of movement at high frequency.Click here to enlarge image
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3. Don Beck, applications manager; and Tim Smith, application engineer, demonstrate the versatility of the 3500 die bonder, as Smith uses it to place arrays of 900-1000 LEDs at once. Click here to enlarge image
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4. Beck shows us a solar power panel that will be used in mobile applications, providing lighter, less cumbersome power. Click here to enlarge image
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5. Allan Haas, engineering director, explained the technology behind Palomar’s Bond Data Miner integrated data management software, used to maintain machine calibration, reliability, and maintenance statistics for system performance.Click here to enlarge image
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1. At StratEdge, Tim Going, president; and Casey Krawiec, V.P. North American sales, kept us laughing and taught us lots about hermetically sealed ceramic packages. From left, Don Pehle, quality assurance manager; Going; Krawiec; Josie Santos, director of finance and administration; von Trapp; and Flower. Click here to enlarge image
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2. Isabelle Abalon, operations supervisor, checks molded ceramic packages for fixture marks, and makes sure there is no carbon residue, for proper plating. Click here to enlarge image
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3. Oxide-coated leadframes are ready for assembly. Click here to enlarge image
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4. Elna Javier, technician, demonstrates a steady hand as she uses a single-hair paintbrush to paint liquid gold paste on one area of a ceramic part to complete the connection. Click here to enlarge image
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5. Robbie Villagracia, technician, prepares packages for epoxy application. Die will be placed in the epoxy and then cured in the oven. Click here to enlarge image
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6. Born to be wild…Click here to enlarge image
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