Tim Dubbs

Depositing materials in a vacuum environment reduces contamination and enables materials to travel unimpeded to the substrate. As such, this technique is an important industrial process for creating thin films and coatings across a diverse range of applications including semiconductor manufacturing, optics or glass and beyond.

Precise temperature control is critical across many industries. While high-accuracy probes are available, optical-based systems like pyrometers and thermal imagers can have their readings compromised by thermal reflections, leading to inaccurate measurements. This blog discusses how Advanced Energy’s (AE’s) patented algorithms overcome these challenges to enhance process control, product quality and manufacturing yield.

Many industrial manufacturing processes require monitoring and control of temperature at key points in the operation to ensure the highest product quality, maximum throughput and optimized yield. To meet these demands, innovations are driving new precise and reliable thermal measurement solutions. Traditional technologies such as thermocouples and thermistors are giving way to more sophisticated optical techniques that deliver improved reliability and repeatability needed by modern thermal processes. This has led to the growing use of fiber optic sensors that are immune to electromagnetic interference (EMI) common in industrial environments, and non-contact pyrometers that measure precise thermal radiation.