University of Technology (TU/e,
https://www.tue.nl/en/) is one of Europe's top technological universities, situated at the heart of a most innovative high-tech region, with a wealth of collaborations with industry and academic institutes. Since 2009, the TU/e is Europe's best-performing university in terms of research cooperation with industry (according to CWTS Leiden Ranking). TU/e has around 3,000 employees and 2,300 PhD students (half of which international, representing about 70 nationalities).
Project descriptionThe aim of the NXTGEN Chip Assembly Equipment project is to develop technology and processes for the next generation of high-volume, high-efficiency, and high-precision chip assembly equipment. The Netherlands are an important player in the international growing market of semiconductor production and assembly. Today's mechatronics-based assembly technology lacks the productivity, flexibility and sustainability, required for future production scenarios. They deliver high volumes and accuracy, but are expensive and inefficient. Innovations are needed based on novel paradigms.
A consortium led by ITEC B.V. will develop novel solutions to replace traditional mechatronics solutions with contactless handling using force field technology. Precisely controlled force fields are used to assemble semiconductor products energy-efficiently, cheap and fully digitally, and are more sustainable than traditional technologies. In this consortium, TU/e is responsible for development and integration of architectures for the Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) that control the processes of semiconductor assembly, their modelling, optimization and model-driven development.
PhD positionThe PhD in this position will be responsible for development of theory, models and tools to infer and calibrate models from system observations, analyze system with their models, and optimize the system-level behavior of layered CPS including critical timing. The objective is to deliver an architecture and solutions with guaranteed assembly speed, quality and productivity. In collaboration with partners, these solutions will be embedded and validated in industrial hardware and software systems.