phoenix|x-ray opens x-ray inspection service center

DECEMBER 5--phoenix|x-ray Systems + Services (St. Petersburg, FL, USA; www.phoenix-xray.com) has opened a service center in St. Petersburg to further boost its presence in the US market. The service center is equipped with the latest in x-ray inspection technology, and sales, service, and applications engineers are available to provide services ranging from system demonstrations to 2- and 3-D application development. The service center has three high-resolution phoenix|x-ray x-ray systems (nanome|x, v|tome|x, and nanotom) covering the range of x-ray technology from high-resolution 2-D inspection with 13,300X magnification to submicron computed tomography (CT) for use in fields such as the electronics, semiconductor, and automotive industries, and aero- and astronautical engineering.

The nanome|x offers a wide performance range enabling both high-resolution 2-D analysis and 3-D CT. The nanome|x comes with an 180-kV nanofocus x-ray tube and a 2- or 4-Mpixel detector enabling magnifications in the range of 200- to 300 nm (0.2--0.3 µm). The nanome|x is especially suited for the inspection of high-quality surface-mounted and bonded devices in the semiconductor and assembly industries.

The v|tome|x is a high-resolution microfocus CT system featuring CNC-control, digital detector, special CT x-ray tube, and high-performance reconstruction software, while combining both 3-D and 2-D x-ray analysis. The v|tome|x can be equipped with two tubes of different power levels.

The nanotom is a 3-D CT system designed to meet the inspection requirements in materials science, micromechanics, electronics, geology, and biology. This compact x-ray inspection system features a high-power 160-kV nanofocus x-ray tube and is the first x-ray system of its kind. The nanotom enables the analysis of samples up to 120 mm in diameter and 1 kg/2.2 lb in weight, with voxel resolutions smaller than 0.5 µm (<500 nm).