Santa Barbara Science Fair

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Santa Barbara Science Fair
Craig Prater, Ph.D. Director, Technology
Development Veeco Instruments Inc.
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Veeco builds equipment for nanotechnology

Telecom/Wireless
Data Storage
Semiconductor
Scientific Research
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VEECO OVERVIEW

• Two key divisions
• Process Equipmentmachines that make creates
  nanotechnology devices
• computer chips disk drive components
• High-brightness light emitting diodes
• Metrologymachines that measure surfaces down to
  the atomic scale

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15 years of Experience in Instrumentation for
the Micro- and Nano-scales
Scanning Probe Microscopes
Optical Profilers
Stylus Profilers
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Scanning Probe Microscopes

• Scan a sharp tip over a sample to create a 3D
  computer image of the surface
• Just on CSI New York!

Digital Instruments
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Scanning Probe Microscopes versatile nanoscale
analysis

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Discovering protein structure

• Stretch unfold individual molecules

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Science engineering we use

• Opticslasers, optical microscopes, video
  cameras, optical sensors
• Electromechanicsprecision actuators force
  sensors
• Electronics
• fast and low noise electronics
• Fast mathematical computation.
• Physics
• interactions between atoms molecules
• vibration of tiny devices (cantilevers)