Veeco
Instruments Inc. (Nasdaq: VECO), the leading provider of atomic force and
scanning probe microscopes (AFM/SPMs) to the Research and Industrial communities,
announced today the release of the MultiMode® 8 High-Performance Scanning
Probe Microscope (SPM), bringing extensive new capabilities to the world's
highest resolution, most widely-used and field-proven SPM. Veeco is introducing
the MultiMode 8 at the MRS Fall Meeting in Boston, MA, December 1st through
4th.
“The MultiMode platform has long been the gold standard for performance
and application versatility in the field of SPMs, and we've significantly
enhanced its capabilities with the MultiMode 8,” commented David Rossi,
Vice President and General Manager of Veeco's AFM Business. “With
a totally new software interface and the addition of patent-pending ScanAsyst™
and PeakForce™ QNM™, technologies, the MultiMode 8 offers researchers
the ultimate in resolution, flexibility, and proven reliability. In order to
make these remarkable advances also available to our thousands of loyal MultiMode
customers, we have designed many of these new capabilities to be available as
upgrades to their current MultiMode platform.”
MultiMode 8 features two new patent-pending technologies from Veeco, ScanAsyst
and PeakForce QNM. ScanAsyst is Veeco's revolutionary automated imaging
optimization mode, which enables both expert and novice users to access the
most advanced applications and modes to obtain research-quality results easier
and faster. The MultiMode 8 also supports the new PeakForce QNM, Veeco's
proprietary, quantitative nanomechanical property mapping option, which delivers
more accurate, repeatable results for modulus and adhesion measurements while
also helping to preserve sample and probe integrity. Finally, new NanoScope®
Version 8.1 software offers a simplified interface and faster, more powerful
tools for data gathering and off-line analysis.
The high resolution and data processing capabilities of the MultiMode 8 are
the result of its combination of rigid, mechanical design and extremely advanced
SPM control electronics. Utilizing Veeco's advanced NanoScope V SPM Controller
and new Version 8.1 software, the system features unprecedented bandwidth and
extremely low-noise data acquisition to enable such proprietary, patent-pending
technology advances as ScanAsyst and Peak Force QNM. These features combine
to reaffirm the MultiMode 8 as the most versatile, highest performance SPM in
its class.
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.