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Wire Shorting Defect Mitigation on Substrate LGA Device Through Wirebond Capillary Adjustment

Jonathan Pulido, Frederick Ray Gomez & Raymond Albert Narvadez · Journal of Engineering Research and Reports · 2021

Semiconductor packaging technologies are getting more challenging with regards to assembly manufacturing due to several factors such as complex package layout, process and machine capability, and materials compatibility. This paper discusses the wirebonding process difficulty and...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/jerr/2021/v20i917367

Low Latency, Low Power in A. I. Perception Modules Development and Implementation for Autonomous Driving

Rajdip Das · Journal of Engineering Research and Reports · 2021

Self-service vehicles can combine data to boost the understanding of that of other cars, and thus improve safety drive and identification performance. However, it is burdensome to share in between autonomous vehicles, because due to the quantity of data generated by different veh...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/jerr/2021/v20i917368

Air Pollution Assessment of a Gas Flare Site in the Niger Delta Region

Chioma Olivia Ehumadu, Uyigue Lucky & Ndekwu Benneth Onyedikachukwu · Journal of Engineering Research and Reports · 2021

Aim: The aim of this research was to investigate the level of air pollutants generated from a gas flaring plant in Ogbogu and Ebocha communities of Rivers State, Port Harcourt, Nigeria. Study design:  Seven monitoring stations were selected for Air quality monitoring, which invol...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/jerr/2021/v20i817366

Glass Die Ink Marking Media Selection for a Robust Glass Attach Process

Jerome Dinglasan, Aiza Marie Agudon & Frederick Ray Gomez · Journal of Engineering Research and Reports · 2021

Glass material used on a semiconductor device for isolating currents are one of the new breakthroughs of the modern world. Challenges are inevitable due to its complex characteristics and unique appearance. The study focuses on the phenomenon of reject glass die unrecognized, pic...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/jerr/2021/v20i817365

Beating of Eucalyptus Pulp Fibers under Neutral and Alkaline Conditions – A Valley Beater Study

Klaus Dölle & Bardhyl Bajrami · Journal of Engineering Research and Reports · 2021

Beating is one of the most important and complicated processes that influences paper production and paper quality from both a process and a paper property standpoint. With increasing costs, environmental regulations and competitiveness in the today’s global market, paper and boar...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/jerr/2021/v20i817362

Addressing the Broken Wire Issue during the Assembly Manufacturing of QFN Leadframe Device

Raymond Albert A. Narvadez, Freddie B. Folio, Frederick Ray I. Gomez & Jonathan C. Pulido · Journal of Engineering Research and Reports · 2021

The integrity of the assembly wirebond process’ 2nd bond poses a big challenge for semiconductor manufacturing of quad-flat no-leads (QFN) devices, particularly on multiple wires on a lead. These devices are vulnerable to induce or obtain broken wire at heel defect. This type of...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/jerr/2021/v20i817363

Different Vacuum Pad Design Effects with Z-Picker Assembly

Allen Jay D. Kumawit, Maria Virginia S. Buera, Mariane A. Mendoza & Frederick Ray I. Gomez · Journal of Engineering Research and Reports · 2021

After singulation process where the strips are being cut into single units, unit tray loading comes next. Unit tray loading is the process where the singulated units will be picked up from the table and then place it in a tray pocket. Z-picker assembly executes the pick and placi...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/jerr/2021/v20i817364

Comparative Study of Three Solar Drying Methods of Adensonia digitate L. (Baobab Leaves using Drying Kinetics and Empirical Drying Models)

S. A. Okaiyeto, Nathaniel Oji & Y. A. Unguwanrimi · Journal of Engineering Research and Reports · 2021

A comparative study of three drying methods of baobab leaves have been conducted and reported. Mixed mode solar drying, indirect mode solar drying and open sun drying of baobab leaves were conducted based on three drying models viz a viz Lewis,. Page and Henderson and Pabis model...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/jerr/2021/v20i817361

A Novel Simplification for the Prediction of Natural Gas Compressibility Factor

OMOBOLANLE Oluwasegun Cornelious, AKINSETE Oluwatoyin Olakunle & AROMOKEYE Niyi · Journal of Engineering Research and Reports · 2021

The need for a simpler, effective and less expensive predictive tool for the estimation of natural gas compressibility factor cannot be exaggerated. An accurate prediction of gas compressibility factor is essential because it plays a definitive role in evaluating gas reservoir pr...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/jerr/2021/v20i817360

Modification of Portable Power Tiller for Small Scale Weeding Operation

A. Zakariyah, A. M. El–Okene, U. S. Mohammed, N. Oji, I. Abubakar, J. K. Agunsoye & K. Ahmad · Journal of Engineering Research and Reports · 2021

Weeds are unwanted and undesirable plant that interfere with the utilization of land and water resources and adversely affect crop production. After preliminary study, it was found out that power tiller could be adopted for weeding. Therefore, the study aimed at improving its per...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/jerr/2021/v20i817359

Study of Diebond Machine Platform on Theta Rotation Performance

Edwin M. Graycochea Jr., Rennier S. Rodriguez & Frederick Ray I. Gomez · Journal of Engineering Research and Reports · 2021

Theta rotation on die during diebond process is one of the critical machine responses especially for land grid array (LGA) device with tight tolerances requirement. The paper focuses on the die theta rotation tolerance capability with critical design for LGA device evaluated on t...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/jerr/2021/v20i817357

Defining an Optimized Machine Process Sequence to Address Broken Wafer Phenomenon on Semiconductor Products

Jerome J. Dinglasan · Journal of Engineering Research and Reports · 2021

Silicon wafer as a direct material is one of the vital parts of a semiconductor product. Wastages on manufacturing plants that pulls the yield down should be addressed innovatively and accurately. This paper focused on the phenomenon of broken wafers at wafer taping process durin...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/jerr/2021/v20i817356

Substrate Design Augmentation for Die Placement Reference at Die Attach Process

Rennier Rodriguez, Jr. Edwin Graycochea & Frederick Ray Gomez · Journal of Engineering Research and Reports · 2021

Die placement reference in die attach process is one of the critical aspects in measuring the actual die placement especially for the device that has a required measurement. This paper focused on the re-design on the layout of the substrate ball grid array (BGA) package with cros...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/jerr/2021/v20i817355

Derivation of Minimal Cutsets from Minimal Pathsets for a Multi-State System and Utilization of Both Sets in Checking Reliability Expressions

Ali Muhammad Ali Rushdi & Motaz Hussain Amashah · Journal of Engineering Research and Reports · 2021

This paper addresses two important useful extensions of binary reliability techniques to multi-state reliability techniques, namely: (a) the problem of complementation or inversion of the function of system success to that of system failure (or equivalently, of deriving the logic...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/jerr/2021/v20i817354