DRS Hadland, formerly Hadland Photonics, has supplied the Department of Measurement, Control and Microtechnology at the University of Ulm with an ultra-high speed digital imaging system to help them gain a greater understanding of the dynamics of moving parts in microdevices.

The measurement of position, velocity and acceleration of moving parts in microdevices is of great interest in the rapidly growing field of microsystem technology in order to solve the problems needed to allow evolution from laboratory use into industrial mass production. Such research is targeted towards gaining a better understanding of the dynamics of the moving parts in microdevices.

For the visual investigation of dynamics in microdevices high optical magnification is necessary because the dimensions of microsystem components are very small. Therefore, velocities of parts of such microdevices appear to be extremely fast and time constraints are very small.