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AI-based inspection detects, classifies, and measures defects directly in microscope images of components.

AI Image Analysis for Reliable Defect Detection

AI-based visual inspection with microscopy helps make quality control in industrial environments efficient by reducing manual inspection effort concerning defect detection, classification, and…
Overview of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning

An Overview of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning

AI is rapidly changing industrial inspection, quality control, and manufacturing workflows. But not all AI technologies work the same way. From machine learning and deep learning to the newer concept…
Why the Future of Microscopic Inspection Is AI-Assisted, Not Fully Automated

Why the Future of Microscopic Inspection Is AI-Assisted, Not Fully Automated

The next wave of QC productivity gains will not come from building more automated inspection lines. Instead, it will come from augmenting millions of inspection decisions that are made manually every…
Image of glass with primary corundum having numerous inclusions. It was taken with a microscope using polarization contrast.

Ensuring Glass Quality with the Polarization Microscopy Advantage

Glass is one of the oldest materials known. Today, it is used for many applications, e.g., optical instruments, windows, doors, solar panels, containers for food, beverages, and medicine, so strict…
Some 2D measurements, e.g., lengths and areas, made on a PCB sample with a Leica measurement microscope using the Enersight software.

How to Select the Right Measurement Microscope

With a measurement microscope, users can measure the size and dimensions of sample features in both 2D and 3D, something crucial for inspection, QC, failure analysis, and R&D. However, choosing the…
Example of calibrating a microscope at a higher magnification value using a stage micrometer.

Microscope Calibration for Measurements: Why and How You Should Do It

Microscope calibration ensures accurate and consistent measurements for inspection, quality control (QC), failure analysis, and research and development (R&D). Calibration steps are described in this…
Optical microscope image, which is a composition of both brightfield and fluorescence illumination, showing organic contamination on a wafer surface. The inset images in the upper left corner show the brightfield image (above) and fluorescence image (below with dark background).

Visualizing Photoresist Residue and Organic Contamination on Wafers

As the scale of integrated circuits (ICs) on semiconductors passes below 10 nm, efficient detection of organic contamination, like photoresist residue, and defects during wafer inspection is becoming…
Image of magnetic steel taken with a 100x objective using Kerr microscopy. The magnetic domains in the grains appear in the image with lighter and darker patterns. A few domains are marked with red arrows. Courtesy of Florian Lang-Melzian, Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany.

Rapidly Visualizing Magnetic Domains in Steel with Kerr Microscopy

The rotation of polarized light after interaction with magnetic domains in a material, known as the Kerr effect, enables the investigation of magnetized samples with Kerr microscopy. It allows rapid…
Region of a patterned wafer inspected using optical microscopy and automated and reproducible DIC (differential interference contrast). With DIC users are able to visualize small height differences on the wafer surface more easily.

6-Inch Wafer Inspection Microscope for Reliably Observing Small Height Differences

A 6-inch wafer inspection microscope with automated and reproducible DIC (differential interference contrast) imaging, no matter the skill level of users, is described in this article. Manufacturing…
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