Company Profile: Veeco Instruments Inc

 

Veeco: The Most Complete Portfolio in Compound Semiconductor
Proven performance and reliability for R&D and production.

Veeco is a world leading supplier of equipment to the compound semiconductor industry, and the only company offering both Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD) and Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) solutions. With Veeco, you get the maximum flexibility, backed by leading process expertise. Veeco not only provides you
with more choices, but the leading technology platforms as well.

Our metrology and process equipment products provide solutions for nanoscale applications in the worldwide LED/wireless, data storage, semiconductor and scientific research markets. Veeco's tools help grow, process and measure integrated circuits at the nanoscale
level using MOCVD, MBE and Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) technologies, fostered by the industry’s most advanced Process Integration Center (PIC).

 

 

SOLUTIONS FOR A WIDE VARIETY OF DEVICES
Applications	MBE	MOCVD
Wireless telecom	InP, GaAs, GaN	InGaP, GaAs, GaN, SiC
Optical telecom	InP, GaAs	InP/As
Lighting-LEDs	ZnO, ZnSe	GaN, AlGaAs; As/P
Research	Across periodic table	GaN, As/P, SiC
Data storage	Metal oxides	GaN, AlGaAs
Si semiconductor	Oxide, novel materials	GaN

TurboDisc MOCVD: The Production Proven Choice For High Volume Manufacturing

Veeco’s patented TurboDisc® technology has been a foundation of MOCVD science for over 20 years, and is the basis for our leading MOCVD systems for the research, development, and high volume manufacture of compound semiconductor materials. These innovative systems ensure exceptional epitaxial material quality for all growth processes, enabling customers to meet the strict requirements of today’s advanced devices such as HB-LEDs, Solar Cells, Laser Diodes, HBTs and pHEMTS . Combining manufacturing expertise with an extensive R&D laboratory, Veeco continues to bring to market the industry’s highest throughput, most cost effective production proven MOCVD systems.

Along with industry-leading MOCVD growth technology, Veeco offers an extensive support network to assist users in every phase of system operation. The world-class TurboDisc applications laboratory meets device development needs by enabling tool owners to work directly with epitaxial growth experts to refine material processes and fully optimize tool performance. Laboratory support includes hands-on access to in-house Veeco research and production tools, advanced training, and technical seminars at customer facilities. This collaboration with Veeco epi scientists results in improved material yield and expedites the transfer from process development to commercial production. With more than 20 locations worldwide, Veeco also supplies comprehensive local service, including spare parts depots and tool maintenance programs. Eliminating unnecessary downtime in production cycles, experienced field engineers are available to perform preventative maintenance and system repair, prolonging the life of system.

Total Solutions Provider for MBE

Veeco MBE systems are utilized in a variety of applications in the electronic and opto-electronic fields using materials from across the periodic table. The Veeco product portfolio includes a wide range of industry leading patented technologies, including various source technologies (record-setting valved crackers and SUMO® sources), RF plasma components, electronic control systems & software, for both R&D- and production-based MBE systems.

Veeco MBE Operations meets customer needs with an offering of five systems ranging from highly capable research tools to sophisticated, high-output production platforms. Most recent, Veeco introduced the GEN20™, which encompasses the best features of both the industry mainstay GEN II™ and the revolutionary cluster tool GEN200® MBE systems, allowing customers the opportunity to achieve excellent
material quality results during R&D and transition to an automated pre
pilot-production platform or production platform as needed.

Process Integration Center Enabling Valuable Collaboration and Faster Time to Market

Combined with state-of-the-art equipment, Veeco provides the most extensive process support in the industry through its expertly trained staff and PIC facilities, ensuring maximum system uptime. Veeco’s PIC serves as an excellent process resource in addition to providing a process scalable, high volume manufacturing platform for your future utilization, if necessary. It can speed your time to market by allowing you to:

• Pre-qualify process prior to Capex
• Transfer your epitaxial process from a competitive platform
• Ship devices while awaiting delivery
• Transfer advanced PIC growth and maintenance processes to
  your facilities
• Train your staff on the integrated process and tool solution
• Acclaimed Global Service and Support

Veeco’s worldwide service and support is what sets the standard for maximizing uptime and minimizing the cost-of-ownership of our products. With 24x7 service around the world, our customers can count on us to deliver the latest applications support and keep them running with maximum productivity. Veeco knows that customer satisfaction is more than just superior equipment—it’s the total
measure of how the equipment performs in our customers’ applications.

One Supplier, Every Answer—Partner with Veeco

No matter where you look in compound semiconductor, Veeco is poised to meet your requirements. Innovative sources and components, flexible R&D systems, the highest-throughput production systems, complementary clusterable etch and deposition technologies, even nanoscale technologies and our PIC. With our unique commitment to the compound semiconductor market and the widest range of compound semiconductor solutions, we are the only logical partner to help enable your current—and future—needs.

Additional information on Veeco can be found at http://www.veeco.com