WOODBURY, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 3, 2008--Veeco Instruments
Inc. (Nasdaq: VECO), a leading provider of instrumentation to the
nanoscience community, announced today that the prestigious 'Unite
mixte de Physique' (UMP), a joint laboratory between the French
National Scientific Research Center (CNRS) and Thales Group, has
selected the EnviroScope(TM) Atomic Force Microscope to aid in the
lab's cutting-edge physics research. Professor Albert Fert, the 2007
recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physics, manages the UMP laboratory,
which is based in Palaiseau, France.
The UMP laboratory performs cutting-edge research in spintronics
and other small-scale electrical measurements. Veeco's AFMs have a
long history of enabling such innovative research and technologies,
and the EnviroScope was chosen for its capability to deliver
electrical characterization in very high resolution enabled by its
vacuum environment.
UMP research engineer Karim Bouzehouane commented, Veeco's
EnviroScope is ideal for our research because of the strong features
of the tool. For example, the EnviroScope, while designed to operate
under vacuum, is as easy to use as an in air system, and it offers
flexible software and a powerful controller. In addition, we have had
good prior experience with Veeco's products and their excellent
customer support.
David Rossi, Vice President, Business Unit Manager of Veeco's
Nano-Bio AFM Business commented, The scientists at CNRS/Thales are
leading innovators in the field of advanced physics research. The
EnviroScope AFM enables high resolution electrical characterization in
vacuum, and we are pleased that they have selected the EnviroScope to
aid their research.
Veeco's innovative, high-performance EnviroScope AFM has been
engineered specifically to facilitate advanced research under
stringent requirements, in vacuum and/or with environmental control.
The EnviroScope is ideal for a wide array of cutting-edge
applications, such as advanced electrical measurements,
temperature-sensitive applications, surface/gas interactions and
electrochemistry.
About the Unite mixte de Physique CNRS/Thales Laboratory
The laboratory Unite mixte de Physique (UMP) was created in
January 1995 and is a joint laboratory between the French CNRS and the
industrial company Thales (ex-Thomson-CSF). The UMP has been
affiliated with the University Paris-Sud since January 2000. The
creation of the UMP strengthened an existing collaboration between
Professor Fert at the University Paris-Sud and a group at Thales'
central laboratory. This collaboration, centered on studies of
magnetic metal multilayers, led to the discovery of the Giant
Magnetoresistance effect (GMR) in 1988. This important discovery is
applied in the hard disk read process in most computers today. It also
brought the development of the research domain to an entity now called
Spintronic. Professor Fert received the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physics
together with Professor Peter Grunberg for the discovery of the GMR
effect.
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Metrology and Instrumentation solutions for the data storage, HB-LED,
solar, wireless, semiconductor and scientific research markets.
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York, New Jersey, California, Colorado, Arizona and Minnesota. Global
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