Lehighton Electronics, Inc.
Initial emphasis of the company was on electronic assembly work for area corporations, including Lucent (then Western Electric). Later, as the need arose for custom printed circuit boards, LEI began the manufacture of simple printed circuit board products. Over the years our board manufacturing technology has continued to advance and today we are a major supplier of such sophisticated products as multilayer performance, DUT (device under test), microwave, and burn-in boards. These boards are instrumental for successful utilization of multimillion dollar IC test systems. Our customers, in addition to Lucent, include many of the key semiconductor operations around the world.
In the mid 1970's, LEI initiated a line of test instruments to further service the semiconductor industry. The initial offerings were the Miller Feedback Profiler and Contactless Probe units. Both of these products (utilizing technology licensed from Western Electric) have been improved over the years with LEI innovations and remain popular to this day. Key among these improvements have been the computerized control and data logging, a Windows NTTM operating environment, robotics, and many others.
Today LEI's 1510/1520 Computerized Contactless Measurement Systems have become the instrument of choice for the analysis of process layers on GaAs wafers. Our Advance Technology Systems offer such sophisticated features as cassette to cassette sorting and three dimensional mapping. Our customer base has extended to evolving technologies such as flat panel displays, as well as applications beyond semiconductors. Diverse users such as the manufacturers and users of microwave food packaging have found our eddy current gauges to be an ideal means of characterizing the resistivity of specialized susceptor materials.
In the future LEI looks to further serve characterization needs through the introduction of new systems, including contactless mobility, and others. Each of these systems serve a unique need and are designed to provide timely process feedback control to ensure that the high value of the product is not compromised. We remain committed to understanding the unique requirements of our client's specific applications and to working with them to find the appropriate solutions.