At the SEMICON West trade shows and seminars in San Francisco this week, Veeco
Instruments Inc. (Nasdaq: VECO), a leading global provider of precision
instrumentation and metrology solutions for scientific and industrial markets,
will announce a new ContourGT(TM) Optical Surface Profiler configuration optimized
for characterizing high-brightness light-emitting diode (HB-LED) patterned sapphire
substrates (PSS).
The ContourGT-X8 PSS combines advanced non-contact 3D measurement capabilities
with unique Veeco PSS metrology hardware and software technology, and a Wafer
Automation System Developer's Kit (SDK) that provides a tailored solution for
PSS quality assurance and quality control applications where high-throughput
and repeatability capabilities are essential.
"With the rapid growth of PSS as a vital technology for enhancing efficiency
and ensuring color consistency in HB-LEDs, measuring their feature size and
consistency on sapphire wafers is becoming a critical step in HB-LED manufacturing,"
said Mark R. Munch, Ph.D., Executive Vice President, Veeco Metrology & Instrumentation.
"Now, the ContourGT-X8 PSS gives wafer suppliers and HB-LED device manufacturers
an affordable way to obtain high-throughput, 3D surface metrology to enhance
productivity, while assuring the quality of their end products."
Ross Q. Smith, Vice President and General Manager, Veeco Optical Industrial
Metrology, added, "We have worked closely with PSS wafer suppliers and
HB-LED manufacturers to develop the ContourGT-X8 PSS, ensuring that it has the
full breadth of capabilities necessary to deliver the required measurements.
In addition, we have teamed with leading wafer automation providers such as
CHAD Industries to develop a compelling value proposition for HB-LED manufacturers
who often need flexibility in automation solutions. We expect the ContourGT-X8
PSS to become the industry standard as a simple-to-operate, 7/24, high-performance
PSS surface metrology solution."
Veeco Instruments, Inc. designs, manufactures, markets and services 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 product development, marketing, engineering
and manufacturing facilities are located in New York, New Jersey, California,
Colorado, Arizona, Massachusetts and Minnesota. Global sales and service offices
are located throughout the U.S., Europe, Japan and Asia Pacific. http://www.veeco.com