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JUNE 2025 I PCB007 MAGAZINE 9 Marcy LaRont is the manag- ing editor of PCB007 Mag- azine and executive direc- tor of IPC Publishing Group. Marcy started her career in PCBs in 1993 and brings a wide array of business experience and perspective to I-Connect007. To contact Marcy, click here. ment mechanism? Can advanced inline AOI technology increase quality and reli- ability in real-time? Can you really drill a perfect hole? We start our discussion on superior hole quality in an interview with Stefan Rung of Schmoll Maschinen. is is followed by an interview with Giovanni Robino of MKS' Atotech about inline AOI technology. Bob Neves adeptly addresses, "e Death of the Microsection." ese articles are fol- lowed by feature columns from Don Ball and Michael Carano, and Happy Holden draws on previous content from his friend and mentor, Dr. Karl Dietz, to talk about plated through-hole reliability and voids. Outside of our chosen topic, I've selected a white paper excerpt on digital twin and copper plating from the PEDC conference in Vienna this past Januar y. I'm also including Anaya Vardya's latest article (first published in the May 2025 issue of Design007 Magazine) in his series called "UHDI Fundamentals," where he delves into ways UHDI technology is being used in smart home products. It's definitely interesting! Becky Calwell and Myrium Sullivan of Jobs for the Future confront the challenges of an aging workforce, and Manfred Huschka offers up a China Plus One success stor y in Vietnam. Finally, Dan Feinberg continues his pro- files of IPC Hall of Fame recipients by highlighting the life and career of Lionel Fullwood. It's a full issue, so dive in and let's get started. PCB007 Using a non-traditional, micro-organism separa- tion method, researchers at Rochester Institute of Technology discovered a faster technique that can be used to distinguish cells that are resistant to anti- biotics or cancer. Alaleh Vaghef-Koodehi, a doctoral candidate in RIT's Kate Gleason College of Engineering, with RIT biomedical engineering faculty-researcher Blanca Lapizco-Encinas, led elements of the work to im- prove lab-on-chip devices, specif- ically an insula- tor-based electro- kinetic system, a method that ma- nipulates charged particles, such as microorgan- isms, through applied electrical capabilities. Their most recent paper, "Dielectrophoresis in Car- cinoma Diagnosis: Recent Developments and Appli- cations," describes the process as a reliable means to detect slight variations in microorganisms, which can improve response to diseases. Results are more accurate and can potentially decrease waiting time to determine possible healthcare interventions. Separation of similar microparticles by exploiting minute differences in the electrical charges in cell analysis is a means to quickly identify altered cells due to infection or mutations, for example. "Alaleh was one of the first to demonstrate and validate the use of specific, varied voltages to separate complex samples using nonlinear electrophoresis," said Lapiz- co-Encinas, professor of biomedical engineering and director of the Microscale BioSeparations Laboratory in RIT's Kate Gleason College of Engineering. "Traditional cell culturing is effective, but takes a long time, sometimes 24–36 hours. It means a pa- tient may not have immediate treatment because you are still testing. The process developed by Ala- leh enables faster and more reliable cell differentia- tion by leveraging significant changes in the electri- cal properties of biomarkers." (Source: Rochester Institute of Technology) New Separation Technique Will Improve Lab-on-Chip Devices