Tuesday, October 25, 2016

Equip Your Probe Station for Your Preferences and Application Needs





At Micromanipulator, we work hard to ensure your new probe station provides the optimal performance for your probing needs.  With one of the largest selection of probe stations on the market and a wide assortment of consumables and accessories our customers are able to fully customize their new equipment.  In addition you will receive Micromanipulator’s “Full Life-Cycle Support,” which starts from concept, to production, and goes right through to maintaining your equipment. 

Our range of accessories include high-quality thermal chucks, microscopes, vibration isolation, light and noise shields, a selection of manipulators, DC and RF measurement hardware, all types of probe card holders, and camera systems.  By offering such a wide selection, we make it easy to equip your station to suit personal preferences as well as your application needs. 

Our expertly designed consumables include passive probe holders, active probe holders, high frequency probe holders and probe tips.  We design all of these products with extreme care as we know that the right accessories are critical for your application, and we work hard to offer the best products on the market. 

Our exclusive wafer chucks offer a range of features such as rapidly heating up and cooling down; minimizing expansion into the probes; maintaining incredible planarity over temperature changes with our Frictionless Kinematic Mount; and minimizing heat radiation into the stage to prolong prober life.  Micromanipulator’s hot chuck systems support wafer testing from -65 to 400 degrees and are available with a choice of the heating power supply.

We encourage you to visit our website to learn more about our products.  Even though it is filled with detail and specifications, if you do not see the information you need, give us a call and our engineers will gladly answer your questions. 

Micromanipulator not only invented analytical probing in 1956 but we remain the leading name in the field. Part of our company’s philosophy and what drives our success is an unfaltering commitment to our customers’ satisfaction. With a worldwide network of service support engineers, we provide system level support to keep you operating at maximum performance.


Saturday, October 22, 2016

Model 79 Probe Holder is One of Our Most Popular






Micromanipulator is proud of our line of high-quality consumables and accessories that are designed as a part of our systems approach to integration with our probe stations.  One example is our excellent selection of probe tips and probe holders that allow users to choose accessories that meet their measurement equipment interface requirements, application demands and personal preferences as well as budget.  We design, test and manufacture probe holders for a range of applications from general purpose DC characterization, high speed, and wide bandwidth to low current and high power. 

For example, Micromanipulator’s high attack angle holders are designed for hot stage probing and other applications where thermal expansion or vibration can make probing difficult.  Both our standard temperature and high temperature application probe holders offer systems users a choice of styles.    

Among our lineup includes one of our most popular probe holders, the Model 79.  It offers users the option of a standard attack angle or on-axis probe clamps that allow the probe tip to exit straight from the probe holder’s end.  Featuring a set screw closure, it is perfect for very low profile probing.  System users can bend the tip to the correct angle by hand or use one of our pre-bent probe tips, available in 45 or 60 degree attack angles.  This on-axis configuration is available for all Model 79 probe holders. 

The Model 79 Coaxial version is designed for applications including high frequency, low level signal testing, CV testing, and Kelvin force as well as sense and single wire configurations.  Our Model 79 also comes in a Triaxial model that is ideal for applications optimized for low current, fA level measurements, and Kelvin force along with sense and single wire configurations. 

To learn more about our range of probe holders and probe tips, please see our website.  And remember that while Micromanipulator provides comprehensive information online, our engineers are more than happy to answers your questions.  Contact us online via our site or give us a call.    

At Micromanipulator, we not only invented analytical probing in 1956 but are still the top name in the field.  From concept, to production, right through to maintenance, our exclusive Full Life-Cycle Support guarantees customers’ success with our high-tech tools.   Please contact us to learn more about our wide range of probe stations and accessories.

Friday, October 14, 2016

Highly Experienced “Solutions Engineering”






At Micromanipulator our team is invested in designing, testing and manufacturing a range of probe stations as well as smartly designed consumables and accessories to meet our customers’ every need.  Right from our company’s start, we have measured our success by the success of our customers.  This philosophy is at the heart of Micromanipulator, and core to our corporate values as well as the motivation that drives our business. 

We make a point of actively listening and learning from our customers, and then taking that information to produce the type of creative solutions our customers require.  It is one of the reasons we offer such a large selection of wafer probers ranging from Specialty, Semi-automatic, and High-performance to our General-purpose Manual and Economy Manual models.  It is also why we continue to research and develop our line of exclusive accessories and consumables.

Micromanipulator’s “solutions engineering” is responsible for creating probe stations that place the burden of performance on system operators, allowing them to focus on their data, not the prober.  We also provide the industry with advanced technologies that incorporate a systems approach to integration for thermal management; vibration isolation; flexible, open architectures; and materials selections.   

Our solutions engineering also includes producing the exclusive H1000 series thermal wafer chuck that leads the wafer probing industry with the best planarity, lowest noise, and lowest cost.  Our systems support wafer testing from -65 to 400 degrees C, and we offer several configurations to fit your application and budget.  Other examples of Micromanipulator listening to customers is realized in our line of high conductance probe tips (HCT) manufactured specifically to increase tip conductance, while at the same time reducing the probe scrub needed by a factor of 5 or more. 

As a customer of Micromanipulator, you will receive support services from our worldwide network of experience engineers who will provide “system level” support for your entire system from optics to thermal chucks.  Check out our website to learn more about how our services and products continue to set us apart from our competitors.      

Micromanipulator not only invented analytical probing in 1956 but we are leaders in the field and reliably deliver the tools and life cycle support the semi-conductor industry depends on. Our company’s philosophy and what drives our success is an unfaltering commitment to our customers’ satisfaction.

Tuesday, October 11, 2016

High-quality Probe Stations Manufactured in the USA






While our products are readily available worldwide, Micromanipulator is proud of the fact that we manufacture our entire line of probe stations and consumables at our Carson City, Nevada headquarters.  Furthermore, we are highly successful in doing so as this marks our 60th year in the industry. 

Not only did we invent analytical probing but we pioneered many of the advancements made over the last several decades such as the integration of thermal chucks with probe stations.  Also our wafer probers lead the industry with the most technologically advanced, non-operator dependent performance available today.  While we continue to expand the products we produce as well as our geographic footprint, one thing that has not changed is our commitment to customer satisfaction.

We have a reputation among system users for creating products that provide stability with our open, flexible designs and incorporating them with precise, dependable mechanics.  By manufacturing such an extensive lineup, it allows our customers an opportunity to buy a high-quality Micromanipulator probe station that meets all of their needs.  Also since we design, test and manufacture our probe stations at our U.S. facilities, we are able to bring that same expertise and resources to produce a broad range of compatible consumables and accessories.  Regardless of whether you chose a prober from our selection of specialty models to our more economical stations, we have the products to support your entire system from thermal chucks and optics, to probe holders and tips.        

We also think it is important that everyone has the chance to get the type of quality performance offered by our exceptional products regardless of their budget, which is why we have a selection of refurbished, used probe stations.  Micromanipulator also supports an active product upgrade and trade-in program, and those products are for safe as well as products used in demonstrations.  We encourage you take a look at our website to see the entire line of products proudly made in the USA and sold worldwide. 

At Micromanipulator, we not only invented analytical probing in 1956 but are still the top name in the field.  From concept, to production, right through to maintenance, our exclusive Full Life-Cycle Support guarantees customers’ success with our high-tech tools. For one of the most comprehensive selections of probe stations, consumables and accessories on the market, please visit our website.