Spectel Research Corporation

Spectel was formed in 1990 by Dr. Mark Davidson as a research and development company for advancing the state of technology in semiconductor instrumentation and fabrication. The company's mission is to improve accuracy, physical understanding and stability for metrology through software products. It focuses on computer simulation of optical and SEM imaging instruments used in semiconductor manufacturing.

Significant enhancements to the Spectel product line have been added and tested in recent years through grants from SEMATECH and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The company's SEM Monitor software, developed cooperatively with NIST and Hewlett-Packard ULSI Research Laboratory, was named one of the top 100 inventions in 1998 by "R&D" magazine.