Case Studies

WiSP is a collaboration between Potomac Photonics, Potomac Mesosystems, and Gray Technologies. Potomac Mesosystems and Gray Technologies, under direction and co-funding from Potomac Photonics, are collaborating on a project they are calling the Wireless Sensor Project (WiSP). The goal of…

Situation: A Fortune 500 contract manufacturer approached Potomac to develop a process to manufacture very high aspect ratio channels in a copper substrate to be used for chip cooling in high-end computers Phase I – Project RequirementsPotomac worked closely with…

Situation: Miniature electronic circuits to be embedded in fiberglass were needed by an airframe research group. Problem Techniques were required for building miniature electronic circuits that could be embedded in a fiberglass structure. Miniaturization was needed to avoid mechanical perturbation of…

Situation: Potomac was contacted by a start-up medical device company regarding the possibility of shortening prototyping lead times for a polymer device that they were developing. ProblemAt the time, our customer was using mask technology to generate their prototypes, which resulted…

Situation: Customer requested proposal related to Microhole Drilling parts with diameters as small as 10-microns. (Potomac can drill microholes as small as 1 micron). Problem: Electronics company required a 1-week turnaround on 21 different designs related to parts that required…