Mar. 18, 2005 — Veeco Instruments Inc. announced that it received an order for its Dimension X3D automated atomic force microscope from a leading global hard disk drive manufacturer.
The tool, which will be used to measure critical dimensions on next-generation thin film head perpendicular pole structures, is currently scheduled to ship at the end of the second quarter and complements other Veeco process equipment and metrology products installed at the customer’s site.