New Fraunhofer nano center purchases Veeco AFM

Aug. 11, 2005 — Veeco Instruments Inc. (Nasdaq: VECO), a maker of atomic force microscopes and other tools, announced that The Fraunhofer Center for Nanoelectronic Technology in Dresden, Germany has purchased a Dimension X3D automated atomic force microscope.

The Fraunhofer center plans to use the tool for critical dimension metrology for 70 nanometer and below R&D applications, according to a news release. The center is a private-public partnership between Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft and the industrial partners Infineon Technologies AG and Advanced Micro Devices, and has clean-room facilities adjacent to Infineon.

The center’s objective is to become a key semiconductor and nanoelectronics research center and to accelerate the introduction of new semiconductor technologies from R&D to production. Funding is provided by the German Ministry of Education and Research and the free state of Saxony.

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