Evaporated Coatings Chooses Veeco IBD System for Expansion of Optical Coating Manufacturing Capacity

Date Announced: 30 Jul 2013

Deposition kit will provide low-loss optical filters.

Plainview, NY, July 30, 2013 -- Evaporated Coatings, Inc. (ECI), a leading provider of thin film optical coatings, has purchased an additional Veeco SPECTOR® Ion Beam Deposition (IBD) System to support increased customer demand for high-volume production of optical filters.

Robert Schaffer, President of ECI, commented, “Our strategy is to continue to develop and manufacture high quality, innovative optical custom filter coatings with low optical loss. We have been SPECTOR users for many years, and the systems consistently deliver excellent film quality. It made sense to expand our production with Veeco, and I am confident the SPECTOR will continue to give ECI a distinct advantage.”

Jim Northup, Veeco’s Vice President and General Manager, commented, “We are pleased that ECI has again chosen the SPECTOR for their manufacturing ramp. It is further confirmation that Veeco’s IBD technology is the industry’s top choice for low loss optical thin film device fabrication.”

Source: Veeco Instruments

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