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Date Announced: 24 Jul 2012
Optics firm will be able to make filters more quickly thanks to higher throughput of recently lauunced Veeco kit.
PLAINVIEW, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul. 24, 2012-- Veeco Instruments Inc. (Nasdaq: VECO) announced today that Ocean Thin Films, a leading precision optical coatings company, has recently qualified the SPECTOR-HT™ Ion Beam Deposition (IBD) System for high-volume production of optical filters to be used in a broad range of applications, including biophotonics, defense, display, aerospace and lighting.
Randel Mercer, Vice President, Business Development, Ocean Thin Films, commented, “Veeco’s SPECTOR-HT IBD System allows us to deliver high quality optical filters to the market faster by achieving ion beam quality films at superior deposition rates. After comparing Veeco’s deposition technology to other coating platforms, we are confident that SPECTOR-HT will give Ocean Thin Films a distinct production advantage.”
Robert P. Oates, Veeco’s Executive Vice President, Ion Beam Equipment, commented, “We are pleased that Ocean Thin Films chose the new SPECTOR-HT for their manufacturing facility. Our system achieves unprecedented levels of productivity by offering the highest throughput for precision optical thin films.”
The SPECTOR® platform has been the industry-leading optical coating platform for 14 years with over 200 systems shipped around the world. Compared to previous SPECTOR systems, the SPECTOR-HT provides up to 400% increase in system throughput through improved deposition rates and increased lot sizes, up to 300% increase in target material utilization for reduced maintenance and lower cost of ownership and 50% better material uniformity.
Source: Veeco Instruments
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Web Site: www.veeco.com
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