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If you could peer inside many of today’s consumer electronics products, you would find hundreds of critical components that impact our daily lives: hard disk drives, semiconductor chips, high-brightness LEDs, laser diodes, power amplifiers, solar cells, all of which are made and measured by Veeco’s equipment and metrology solutions. Our nanoscale technologies are important to cell phones, PDAs, auto navigation systems, portable music players, personal video recorders, digital cameras, automative and general lighting and solar applications just to name a few.
As these consumer electronics products and devices evolve, they will include new materials and smaller dimensions requiring novel equipment solutions, new methods of nanofabrication and the convergence of technologies. Today and tomorrow’s breakthroughs will hinge on research and product development currently being conducted by our customers both in their production fabs and in scientific labs worldwide.

Hard Disk Drive: Data Storage
New and better consumer electronics are emerging everyday as the driver of growth for the HDD industry. In cell phones, laptops, PDAs, GPS systems and more, Veeco is the world’s leading provider of Process Equipment and Metrology tools for the manufacture of thin film magnetic heads, a critical component of HDDs. Veeco’s products include ion beam etch and deposition, physical vapor deposition, optical and atomic force metrology, lapping and slicing/dicing equipment.


Compound Semiconductor: HB-LED and Wireless
Veeco’s metal organic chemical vapor deposition and molecular beam epitaxy products are critical to the manufacture of high-brightness LEDs, power amplifiers, laser diodes and thermal deposition sources for high-efficiency CIGS for solar applications. Epitaxy is the critical first step in the compound semiconductor wafer fabrication process, ultimately determining device functionality and performance.

Semiconductor
As leading-edge semiconductor device feature sizes shrink below the 45nm threshold, Veeco has successfully penetrated fabs worldwide with our proven automated atomic force microscope solutions. Our innovative breadth of non-destructive 3D AFM metrology solutions is unparalleled in the semiconductor industry, providing unmatched speed with great precision and accuracy. Veeco also sells optical metrology systems and specific types of deposition systems to the semiconductor industry.


Scientific Research
Veeco has long been a pioneer in enabling nanoscience research as we remain at the leading edge of this emerging opportunity by aiding scientists, verifying theories and expanding the frontiers of knowledge. Our atomic force microscopes have become the “industry standards” for atomic imaging and molecular measurements. With the largest installed base of systems, we sell our instruments to nearly every major scientific or research organization worldwide. We also sell a broad array of other metrology and process equipment solutions to research organizations and industrial applications worldwide.