Norman Tolk

  • Collaboration between Vanderbilt and startup Femtometrix leads to exclusive deal

    Collaboration between Vanderbilt and startup Femtometrix leads to exclusive deal

    An innovative wafer inspection tool developed by a team of Vanderbilt professors and engineers has been licensed exclusively to startup company Femtometrix. The semiconductor wafer-inspection technology based on laser optics was invented by Norman Tolk, Ph.D., professor of physics, Michael Alles, engineer for Vanderbilt University’s School of Engineering, and Ron… Read More

    Jun. 27, 2013

  • Radiation damage bigger problem in microelectronics than previously thought

    Radiation damage bigger problem in microelectronics than previously thought

    The amount of damage that radiation causes in electronic materials may be at least 10 times greater than previously thought. That is the surprising result of a new characterization method that uses a combination of lasers and acoustic waves to provide scientists with a capability tantamount to X-ray vision: It… Read More

    Jul. 19, 2012