Rudolph Technologies collaborates with its customers around the globe to develop innovative, data-driven solutions that increase the yield and profitability of their microelectronics and display manufacturing operations. Rudolph’s comprehensive, state-of-the-art inspection, measurement, data analysis and lithography solutions for semiconductor manufacturing and advanced packaging processes accelerate product and process development, increase yields and reduce costs to enable its customers to be first-to-market with premium products at premium prices.

In 1940, the company, O.C. Rudolph and Sons, Inc., was founded by Otto Curt Rudolph. He imported microscopes and other scientific instrumentation and later designed and manufactured instrumentation for universities and laboratories. In 1970, the company changed its name to Rudolph Research Corporation.

Rudolph introduced the industry’s first production-oriented ellipsometer for thin-transparent film measurements in 1977 and has consistently led the industry through innovative product developments that surpass those of the competition.