Veeco
Instruments (Plainview, NY) has joined the Microsystems Industrial Group
(MIG), an exclusive member industry consortium formed by Microsystems Technology
Laboratories (MTL) in Cambridge, MA. As part of this collaboration, Veeco has
donated an NT9800 Optical Profiler outfitted with the In-Motion™ MEMS
Package and a Dimension™ 3100 Scanning Probe Microscope to the Microsystems
Technology Laboratories (MTL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
“This is a great opportunity for Veeco to formalize our collaboration
with Microsystems Technology Laboratories and the other leading companies and
institutions that make up the Microsystems Industrial Group,” said Mark
R. Munch, Ph.D., Executive Vice President, Veeco Metrology. “The precision
measurement capabilities of our optical profilers and atomic force microscopes
will assist the advancement of research and development in energy generation
and storage, biological microelectromechanical systems (bioMEMS), and other
emerging industrial markets. In addition, this gives Veeco yet another important
means of remaining connected with the research community and the technological
needs of tomorrow.”
Professor Anantha P. Chandrakasan, Director of MTL, commented, “We are
excited that Veeco Instruments has joined the MIG. We look forward to a productive
collaboration with Veeco in a number of research areas, including nanotechnology,
advanced metrology, bioMEMS characterization, and compound semiconductor devices.”
MTL is located on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus, Cambridge,
Massachusetts.
Veeco Instruments Inc. manufactures performance solutions for customers in
the solar, industrial and scientific research, data storage and semiconductor
markets. Global sales and service offices are located throughout the U.S., Europe,
Japan and APAC.
MTL is an interdisciplinary laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
in which more than 80 principal investigators from various departments, laboratories,
and centers participate. The laboratory supports research and education in nonosystems,
including semiconductor process and design, integrated circuit design, and MEMS.