Cascade Microtech Hires Geoff Wild as CEO

Cascade Microtech of Beaverton, Ore., a maker of semiconductor production test tools, announced that Geoff Wild has been named president and CEO, effective in January. Wild has worked since 2002 for Nikon Precision Inc., a subsidiary of Nikon Corp., most recently as president and CEO. Prior to that, he held general management positions at Johnson Matthey and AlliedSignal. Wild will also be appointed to the Cascade Microtech board of directors; he currently serves on the boards of E Ink Corp. and Axcelis Technologies Inc.

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nano: An SI prefix meaning one billionth (10-9). Nano can also be used to indicate the study of atoms, molecules and other structures and particles on the nanometer scale. Nano-optics (also referred to as nanophotonics), for example, is the study of how light and light-matter interactions behave on the nanometer scale. See nanophotonics.
photonics: The technology of generating and harnessing light and other forms of radiant energy whose quantum unit is the photon. The science includes light emission, transmission, deflection, amplification and detection by optical components and instruments, lasers and other light sources, fiber optics, electro-optical instrumentation, related hardware and electronics, and sophisticated systems. The range of applications of photonics extends from energy generation to detection to communications and...