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Making the invisible visible!
IMAGIC is an institute center of excellence led by Acreo, with the mission to realise next generation electronic imaging devices for non-visible wavelengths from X-ray to thermal IR.
Industry and university partners work in close co-operation with Acreo to exploit their assembled competence, and establish the technology in fields such as those illustrated in the figure.
Information on IMAGIC activities and partners can be found through the links on the right-hand side of this page.
IMAGIC Editorials:
2010-05-24
NOTE is one of the leading EMS * / CEM * companies in Scandinavia with contract manufacturing units in Sweden, Norway, Finland, United Kingdom, the Baltic States, Poland and China. NOTE has approximately 1 000 employees, approximately 500 of whom work in Sweden.
Our business idea is to make our customer more successful by offering electronics manufacturing services from the design phase to after-sales in close cooperation with the customer.
Several of the products we are manufacturing share one important technologic element. This is the integration of different sensors into the rest of the electronics. Some examples of the sensors NOTE is working with today are different types of imaging, x-ray, gas and pressure sensors.
Through the use of knowledge from conventional surface mounting techniques for manufacturing PCBs, together with techniques aimed at semiconductor assembly, NOTE believes sensor integration can be made smarter than it is today. The cooperation with IMAGIC provides NOTE with access to both high competence and advanced technology within different assembly techniques. Further, NOTE has opened its own lab for research within the IMAGIC project, in order to conduct experiments close to regular serial production.
Today, we are mainly running two projects within IMAGIC. The first is to study a new bump technique for flip-chip. By the use of this technique, we are able to manufacture bumps with 100um pitch using similar pick & place methods to ordinary surface mounting. The next step will be to study high frequency performance. The other project is integration of x-ray detectors directly to a PCB-board without disturbing the signal.
NOTE always strives to determine which assembly technology its customers will need tomorrow. It is through close cooperation with its research partners that NOTE gains access to this information. And this is the greatest benefit of participating in the IMAGIC Centre.
* EMS = electronics manufacturing services
* CEM = contract electronics manufacturer
Anders Söderbärg
Research director, NOTE AB
www.note.se
