WOODBURY, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Veeco Instruments Inc. (Nasdaq: VECO), announced that The California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) at The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) has purchased $1.7 million of atomic force and scanning probe microscope systems (AFM/SPMs) and optical profilers for use in the institute’s multi-user core laboratories performing nanoscience research. The fourth quarter 2006 order included Veeco’s new “high value/low cost” Caliber™ SPM, a Dimension™ 5000 high performance AFM, and a Wyko® NT 9300 high performance Optical Profiler. In addition, the CNSI is the first customer to purchase Veeco’s new, integrated, BioScope II Confocal AFM Package, which features open optical and physical integration between a laser scanning confocal microscope and an AFM, ideal for versatile biological imaging applications.
