Books By Ron Gordon - Author

Ron Gordon earned a B.S. in Physics and B.S. in Mathematics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (1992), and a Ph.D. in Optics from the University of Rochester (1998). His doctoral thesis concerned mathematical properties of scanning light beams that optimize certain energy concentrations within specified regions near focus. Over the subsequent ten years, he worked for semiconductor manufacturing companies such as Motorola and IBM, developing mathematical models of light scatter from photomasks and of light propagation and diffraction through optical projection systems used in photolithography. One result of his research involved an analytical expression for a partially coherent diffraction image under certain conditions, derived by integrating about the boundary of a region defined by the intersection of three circles.