On Wednesday, May 21st from 10:20 to 12:20, there will be a special session for manufacturers. A panel of frequency control device manufacturers has been invited to bring forward review topics or emerging processing technology in the following:
• Process control and/or quality metrics
• Manufacturing methods or technology approaches
• System engineering applied to customer needs
• Capacity planning for emerging device production
Six 10 minute talks have been organized by the 2014 IFCS Technical Program Committee based on relevance, novelty, and contribution to the community. 30 minutes will be reserved for open-mike participation for directed Q&A, follow-up or new topics.
The manufacturers’ scheduled to speak are,
· CSAC Production Statistics, Peter Cash, Microsemi
· Application Challenges in Photonic Devices for THz Generation, Wilhelm Kaenders, Toptica
· Advanced Quartz Photolithography Manufacturing. Alex Yang, Taitien
· MEMS Manufacturing for Timing Devices, Wan-Thai Hsu, Micrel
· Commercial Rb and Cs Clock Processing, Yuanhong Cao, Chengdu Spaceon Electronics
· Application Driven Atomic Clock Selection, David Briggs, Precise Time and Frequency, Inc.
The motivation for these talks is to stimulate a collegial dialogue among the attendees about the role of manufacturing engineering, process control and the engagement of frequency control technologies into the application needs of our users.
The 2014 IFCS Technical Program Committee desires to extract a community consensus about the migration of research developments based on leading edge applied science into commercial-scale device production. Potentially, a few themes will emerge that the IFCS may advance into the 2015 technical program.