Veeco
Instruments Inc. (Nasdaq: VECO), a leader in scientific and industrial metrology,
today announced the launch of its Veeco Confocal Metrology (VCM™) Optical
Profiler Systems. Veeco's new VCM Profilers provide a compact and easy-to-use
non-contact metrology solution for applications requiring data acquisition from
steep slopes, high surface roughness, or beneath transparent layers. VCM Profiler
Systems are based on spinning disc architecture and employ white light as the
excitation source, enabling faster, more accurate and repeatable measurements
than competing confocal systems.
“Veeco has a strong heritage of providing world-class, white-light optical
profilers in a variety of configurations, from table-top models to fully automated
production floor systems,” said Mark R. Munch, Ph.D., Executive Vice President,
Veeco Metrology. “Our new VCM confocal microscopes continue this tradition
of scalable white-light optical instrumentation, providing our research and
industry customers with a suite of metrology options for difficult sample requirements
and a variety of sub-millimeter applications.”
Andrew Masters, Veeco’s Vice President of Segment Marketing and Business
Development, added, “Our VCM profiler line offers quantitative 3D confocal
measurements on the same familiar microscope platform that customers utilize
for brightfield, darkfield, and differential interference contrast (DIC) techniques.”
Veeco’s VCM series of confocal microscopes allow for 150, 200, or 300
millimeters of travel, and can be configured for either manual or automated
operation. Our VCM System software features a full complement of metrology and
3D imaging tools, and accommodates advanced research, development and industrial
needs, from economical manual operation to high-throughput, fully automated
sample positioning and data acquisition. An optional stitching interface makes
stitching multiple data sets simple and automated, providing high-resolution
imaging of features requiring a larger field of view.
Veeco Instruments Inc. manufactures enabling solutions for customers in the
HB-LED, solar, data storage, semiconductor, scientific research and industrial
markets. We have leading technology positions in our three businesses: LED &
Solar Process Equipment, Data Storage Process Equipment, and Metrology Instruments.
Veeco’s manufacturing and engineering facilities are located in New York,
New Jersey, California, Colorado, Arizona, Minnesota and Massachusetts. Global
sales and service offices are located throughout the U.S., Europe, Japan and
APAC.