Veeco
Instruments Inc. (Nasdaq: VECO), a leading global provider of precision
instrumentation and metrology solutions for scientific and industrial markets,
today announced a new low-cost member of its ContourGTTM family of non-contact,
3D optical surface profilers.
The ContourGT-K0 Surface Metrology System combines streamlined architecture
and functionality with significantly improved measurement and computing hardware
and software, making it the industry's most advanced and easiest-to-use low-cost,
3D optical surface profiler.
"With its intuitive user interface and improved throughput capabilities,
our ContourGT product line is being very well received by our industrial and
research customers," said Mark R. Munch, Ph.D., Executive Vice President,
Veeco Metrology & Instrumentation. "By adding the low-cost K0 version,
we have brought top metrology performance and ease-of-use to the more cost-sensitive
QA/QC production and R&D applications, including precision machining, medical,
printing, high-brightness LED and solar."
Ross Q. Smith, Vice President and General Manager, Veeco Optical Industrial
Metrology, added, "As the precision manufacturing industry pursues ever
tightening tolerances and quality assurance criteria, we see a rapidly growing
market for simple-to-operate, high-performance, yet low-cost, non-contact, quantitative
3D surface profilers that can replace traditional, 2D contact-based systems.
The ContourGT-K0 epitomizes this combination, and we expect it to be the industry's
benchmark in this category."
The tabletop ContourGT-K0 is the entry-level model of the ContourGT product
line, which includes a range of profilers designed to meet the technical requirements
and budgets for virtually every type of production and R&D precision surface
metrology application. The systems utilize patented, higher brightness dual-LED
illumination combined with superior vertical resolution to provide greatly improved
sensitivity and stability, enabling precision non-contact 3D surface metrology
in difficult applications and environments that are challenging for other white
light interferometry systems. The entire ContourGT Family also features Veeco's
new Vision64TM Operation and Analysis Software and the industry's most intuitive,
modular user interface to deliver user-level-customization capabilities for
the widest possible range of surface profiling metrology applications.