22 Feb 2007 Woodbury, NY, February 14, 2006 -- Veeco Instruments Inc., (Nasdaq: VECO), a leading supplier of instrumentation to the nanoscience community, today announced the release of the Wyko® NT9300™ and NT9800™ Optical Profilers. The new NT optical profilers are ideal for non-contact surface metrology in a wide range of demanding industrial, research, and production applications including automotive, aerospace, semiconductor, MEMS, and biomedical devices. After successful demonstrations at the University of Arizona, the new NT Optical Profilers are being shown for the first time on November 28 at the Materials Research Society’s Fall 2006 Conference, in Boston, Massachusetts.
“Veeco’s new NT9800 is a state-of-the-art optical profiler that is now used extensively by both students and researchers in our facility,” says Stanley Pau, Associate Professor of Optical Sciences, University of Arizona’s College of Optical Studies. “We are very happy with the performance of the tool, which has become an integral part of our analytical capabilities and research.”
John Wissinger, Vice President of Veeco’s Optical/Industrial business, commented, “Our new profilers deliver the power, resolution and accuracy demanded by our most discriminating customers, and early adopters have been pleased with the performance achieved on the instruments. The design innovations in these instruments greatly reduce the number of moving parts, which increases uptime and improves long-term cost of ownership.”
The ninth-generation NT9300 and NT9800 profilers combine an innovative illumination system, and an industry proven platform to measure topographies from 0.1-nanometer to 10-millimeters to significantly extend non-contact surface measurement capabilities for materials analysis, quality assurance, and the process development and monitoring cycle.
A novel harmonic drive scan mechanism and Veeco’s exclusive Laser Reference signal for Z position feedback provide unparalleled performance, scan accuracy and resolution.
About Veeco
Veeco Instruments Inc. provides solutions for nanoscale applications in the worldwide, data storage, HBLED/ wireless, semiconductor and scientific research markets. Our Metrology products are used to measure at the nanoscale and our Process Equipment tools help create nanoscale devices. Veeco's manufacturing and engineering facilities are located in New York, New Jersey, California, Colorado, Arizona and Minnesota.
Global sales and service offices are located throughout the United States, Europe, Japan and Asia Pacific. Additional information on Veeco can be found at http://www.veeco.com/
To the extent that this news release discusses expectations about market conditions, market acceptance and future sales of Veeco’s products, Veeco’s future financial performance, future disclosures, or otherwisemakes statements about the future, such statements are forward-looking and are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from the statements made. These factors include the challenges of volatility in end market conditions and the cyclical nature of the data storage, semiconductor, HB-LED/wireless and scientific research markets, risks associated with integrating acquired businesses and the acceptance of new products by individual customers and by the marketplace and other factors discussed in the Business Description and Management’s Discussion and Analysis sections of Veeco’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2005, subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and current reports on Form 8-K. Veeco does not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statements to reflect future events or circumstances after the date of such statements. |
