Types of activities

• Develop and simulate electronic circuits, which fit your needs.
• Design and layout of PCB
• Support in electrical characterization of your devices
• Support in test, repair and maintenance of electronic equipment and devices
• Running small electronic storage (R,L,C, some connectors and semiconductors) and solder-ing workshop
• Short term equipment lending (up to a few days)

Projects (selection)

• TOFI - tongue fitness trainer for snoring therapy (Innosuisse, Bottmedical)
• EmpAIR - Ventilation Advisor via CO2 monitoring
• ESCO - universal Empa Stepper Controller
• SFA-AM - automated electrical characterization and selection of single walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNT) for high-speed additive nanostructure assembly
• Valve controller for chemical vapor deposition based graphene growth
• Laser driver and data acquisition electronics for precision trace gas analyzer using laser spectroscopy
• Precision multichannel current measurement for fully automated 
• Low frequency noise characterization of hybrid graphene - quantum dot photodetec-tors
• Monitored dummy load device for electronic animal stunner (BLV)
• High impedance readout electronics for nanowires sensors 
• High current and high voltage polarity switch for magneto-optic Kerr effect (MOKE) spec-troscopy 
• IrSens2  - multi-component sensor for air pollutants and greenhouse gases using near- and mid-infrared spectroscopy (nano-tera)
• Ultra-low noise quantum cascade laser driver (CTI, Alpes Laser SA)

Equipment (selection):

• Scopes up to 2 GHz / 10 GSps
• USB Spectrum Analyzer
• USB Vector Network Analyzer
• Function Generators
• Equipment for Voltage measurement (nano to kilo), Current measurement (pico to kilo) and Resistance measurement (micro to tera)
• LCR-Meters
• SMUs
• Power supplies (AC and DC)
• Electronic loads (AC and DC)
• ESD Gun
• CAD Software Altium Designer and KiCAD
• Spice Simulation (eg. LTSpice)
• Manual solder paste printer using stencils
• Manual pick and place system with split optics
• Reflow oven