Reliability and safety in addition to the required performance at acceptable costs are the main characteristics of high quality products and processes. The Electronics/Metrology/Reliability Laboratory has extensive expertise in the field and operates modern and high performance equipment to investigate and characterize materials, components, devices, and systems.  It also develops measurement and test procedures for the nano-, micro-, and macroscale.

• Reliability and safety: reliability, availability, lifetime, and failure analysis and environmental testing of elec-tronic and photonic components, devices, and systems at the nano-, micro-, and macroscale
• Micro- and nanotechnology: micro- and nanostructuring and characterization using laser ablation, focused ion beam (FIB), and electron microscopy.
• X-ray, ultrasonics, imaging: radiography, X-ray computed tomography, ultrasound technology, image re-construction and processing.
• Monitoring and measurement technology: electrical, mechanical, optical, and thermal procedures

• Research and development (partnerships or contractual)
• Services (consulting, expert opinions, investigations, measurements)
• Knowledge transfer (lectureships, courses, presentations, publications)
• Education (apprenticeship of physic laboratory technician, students, Phd-students)

• Economics, industry, and trade: ICT, aerospace, MedTech, electro-mechanical industry
• Research: ETHs, Universities, institutes
• Public authorities: federal, cantonal, communal
  

Dr. Urs Sennhauser Abteilungsleiter
Tel +41 58 765 41 73, Fax +41 58 765 40 54
urs.sennhauser@empa.ch

Silvia Eppenberger Administration
Tel +41 58 765 42 72, Fax +41 58 765 40 54
silvia.eppenberger@empa.ch