July 27, 2005 — Veeco Instruments Inc. (Nasdaq: VECO), a supplier of instrumentation to the nanoscience community, announced that it is establishing a nanotechnology center in Bangalore, India.
The facility will be staffed with local scientists and engineers and equipped with Veeco’s latest atomic force microscope (AFM), scanning tunneling microscope (STM) products and other advanced nanotechnology tools.
The Veeco-India Nanotechnology Laboratory will be jointly operated with the Jawaharlal Nehru Center for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR). The center promotes scientific research in interdisciplinary areas of science and engineering. The lab is scheduled to open today.