Veeco forms nano advisory board

July 22, 2002 — Veeco Instruments Inc., a Woodbury, N.Y., manufacturer of metrology tools, announced that its metrology group has created a technical advisory board to promote the company’s leadership in measurement instrumentation and nanoscale technology.

The seven-member board will meet regularly to provide feedback on company efforts and to point out areas of nanoscale research that may be fruitful for the company.

The board will be chaired by John Carruthers, former director of components research at Intel. He is joined by Jeffrey Bokor of the University of California, Berkeley, department of electrical and computer sciences; Julio Fernandez, chair of the Mayo Clinic’s single molecule mechanics and engineering lab; James Gimzewski of UCLA’s department of chemistry and biochemistry; Joseph Kirk, former senior engineer at IBM; Calvin Quate of Stanford University’s departments of electrical engineering and applied physics; and Don Sweeney of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

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