SEM Lab helps engineering teams interpret SEM images, EDS data, fracture evidence, contamination patterns, and damage signatures through a structured, written review process.
Credentials
Ed Hare brings unusually broad consulting coverage across the full lifecycle of electronic hardware, from materials selection through manufacturing, reliability, and field-failure resolution.
His experience spans major component classes including passives, semiconductors, magnetics, interconnects, and protection devices, along with the materials systems that govern their behavior, including solders, platings, ceramics, polymers, and specialty alloys.
A core strength is deep failure analysis, including corrosion, fatigue, fracture, delamination, electrical overstress, and latent defects, with the ability to connect physical evidence to real-world engineering decisions.
Why This Model
The site is designed around one core promise: help engineers decide what the evidence most likely means and what to do next.
Submit SEM images, EDS results, annotated photos, and case context. Receive a written interpretation of likely mechanism, risk, and next steps.
A growing reference library of premium reports, technical notes, failure-mode entries, and SEM-centered interpretation content.
SEM Lab is intentionally focused on technical interpretation. Cases that require sample prep, destructive analysis, or broader lab execution should go to an outside lab.
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Member content is organized around recurring engineering questions such as corrosion, contamination, fracture, leakage, shorts, and overstress.
Start Here
Use the intake workflow to submit a focused review request, or explore the member library if your team wants reusable failure-analysis guidance on demand.