Stephan Bökelmann
Stephan is a researcher at the Department of Experimental Hadron Physics in Bochum.
There, he does his best to help design and build detectors for what might just be the world’s fanciest microscopes.
When he’s not chasing particles, he teams up with his friends Odin and Tabea to take on a different challenge: building the ultimate solution for live monitoring—whether it’s rivers across the continental US, critical infrastructure, nuclear power plants, cars, or high-precision production equipment. And because foresight isn’t just for humans, their work also aims at predicting downtime—after all, even machines deserve a little heads-up.
Sessions
Most integrated circuits come safely packaged in epoxy, but not everyone has that luxury. Sometimes, we need to handle bare dies and bond them ourselves. In this talk, I will give a short introduction to the wirebonding process for prototype chips and share some of the unexpected challenges I faced before finally getting my first chip to work.