TECHNICAL ALLIANCE BRIDGE
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Professional History:
  • Worked as a systems and design engineer for a total of over 23 years.
  • Independent consultant since 2004. Clients have included: Timbre Technologies Inc., Owens Design, KLA-Tencor Corp., Bodkin Design and Engineering, Occumetrics Inc., Invarium Inc., Soliacx, Silicon Valley Instruments, American Holt Corp.
  • 5 years at Sensys Instruments/ Thermawave Corp. working on a scatterometer product line.
  • 11 years at Prometrix /Tencor /KLA-Tencor working on thin-film measurement equipment
  • 1 year at StepperVision, Inc. working on stepper overlay and focus set-up instruments.
  • 4 years at Perkin-Elmer Corp. working on stepper characterization and systems engineering.
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    Adam Norton
  • Lens and optical system design.
  • Semiconductor metrology.
  • Optical instrument design.
  • Designed and characterized optical subsystems for wafer steppers.
  • Designed optics for leading semiconductor thin-film measurement product line.
  • Designed optics for semiconductor critical dimension measuring scatterometer.
  • Designed visible and infrared hyperspectral imagers.
  • B.A. Physics and Mathematics, 1983, Amherst College.
  • 22 U.S. patents granted.
  • 2 professional papers.
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