Veeco
| Veeco Instruments, Inc.
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| legal form | Corporation |
| ISIN | US9224171002 |
| founding | 1945 |
| Seat | Plainview , United States |
| management | John Peeler, CEO |
| Number of employees | 1.014 |
| sales | 484,756,000 USD |
| Branch | Environmental technology, equipment manufacturer for the semiconductor industry |
| Website | www.veeco.com |
| As of December 31, 2017 | |
Veeco Instruments, Inc. is an American manufacturer of process equipment for the manufacture of semiconductor products such as light emitting diodes , solar cells and hard drives . The company supports customers in the development, manufacture, sales and service of products in the USA , South Korea , Taiwan , China , Singapore , Japan , Europe and other places.
history
The history of today's Veeco Instruments, Inc. goes back to an earlier company that was founded in 1945 by two scientists from the Manhattan Project ; they had developed a helium leak detector back then. The original name "Veeco" stood for Vacuum Electronic Equipment Company . In the 1960s, the original Veeco merged with Lambda, a power supply manufacturer, and in the late 1980s the company was bought by the UK company Unitech .
In 1990, Edward H. Braun and a group of senior company executives acquired Unitech's Instruments division in a management buyout . The company again used the Veeco Instruments brand and went public on the Nasdaq in 1994 . At that point, Veeco had sales of around $ 30 million. Since then, the company has increasingly focused on delivering manufacturing equipment. It has also grown steadily through both internal development and strategic acquisitions (the company has made more than a dozen acquisitions to date).
In July 2007, EH Braun became Chairman of the Board and John R. Peeler joined the company as Chief Executive Officer . Peeler was previously President of the Communications Test and Measurement Division of JDS Uniphase Corporation .
In October 2010, Veeco announced the sale of the measuring equipment division to Bruker Corporation for $ 229.4 million. Veeco is now concentrating exclusively on the provision of process systems.
In May 2017, the takeover of the manufacturer of production systems for the semiconductor industry Ultratech was completed.
Services
Veeco primarily offers process systems for manufacturers of extremely bright light emitting diodes (so-called high brightness light emitting diodes , HB-LEDs) and solar cells. Veeco is also an important supplier for hard disk manufacturers for the production of thin-film magnetic heads. Your products enable higher surface density - the amount of data that can be stored - and improve yield and consistency. They provide both front-end and back-end technologies, including facilities for:
- metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) for LEDs and CPV solar cells
- Coating systems for CIGS solar cells
- Systems and components for molecular beam epitaxy (MBE).
- Ion beam etching (IBE) and ion beam deposition (IBD)
- The method of physical vapor deposition (PVD)
- Lapping the wafers and cutting the chips
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Annual Report. FORM 10-K. Veeco Instruments, February 21, 2018, accessed May 16, 2018 .
- ^ Edward H. Braun . Forbes.
- ^ Veeco Completes Sale of Metrology Business to Bruker Corporation . Business Wire, October 7, 2010.
- ↑ Elec-Tech Selects Veeco MOCVD as "Tool of Choice" for Two New China LED Factories ( Memento from August 16, 2010 in the Internet Archive ). Yahoo! Finance, August 12, 2010.
- ↑ CIGS Solar Manufacturer Selects Veeco Deposition Equipment ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Nanotechwire.com9. September 2009
- ^ Veeco Wins Key Technology Decisions from Industry Leading Thin Film Magnetic Head Manufacturers . Veeco Instruments Inc, October 13, 2010.
- ↑ Veeco Introduces New TAMR PVD System for Advanced Magnetic Recording Heads . Nanowerk, June 16, 2010 (Veeco press release)
