PLAINVIEW, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 6, 2012--
Veeco Instruments Inc. (Nasdaq: VECO) announced today that Epistar
Corporation, headquartered in Taiwan, recently selected the K465iTM
TurboDisc® gallium nitride (GaN) Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition
(MOCVD) System for development of light emitting diodes (LEDs) grown on
silicon substrates.
M. J. Jou, Ph.D., President of Epistar, commented, “We are pleased to
choose Veeco’s K465i as our GaN-on-Si development tool. We are excited
about the potential of GaN-on-Si technology as we move to larger wafer
sizes. We appreciate the strong support from Veeco, and look forward to
this collaboration.”
William J. Miller, Ph.D., Veeco’s Executive Vice President, Process
Equipment, commented, “We are very pleased that Epistar has chosen the
K465i, which provides low cost-of-ownership and production worthiness,
for its GaN-on-Si LED development. Large diameter Si wafers offer
tremendous promise as a low cost alternative to sapphire for volume
production of lower cost LEDs.”
For further information on the K465i please visit Veeco at http://www.veeco.com/products/mocvd.aspx
About Epistar Corporation
Epistar Corporation, located in the Hsinchu Science-based Industrial
Park, Taiwan, manufactures high brightness LEDs of compact size, low
power consumption and long operation life. They are widely used in areas
such as fax machines, scanner lighting, automotive interior and exterior
lighting, LCD backlighting, outdoor/indoor displays, traffic signals,
indicators for various consumer electronic equipment and eventually
light sources for general illumination. Epistar has successfully
commercialized the full spectrum range of high brightness LEDs. http://www.epistar.com.tw/about-e.htm
About Veeco
Veeco makes equipment to develop and manufacture LEDs, solar cells, hard
disk drives and other devices. We support our customers through product
development, manufacturing, sales and service sites in the U.S., Korea,
Taiwan, China, Singapore, Japan, Europe and other locations. Please
visit us at www.veeco.com.
To the extent that this news release discusses expectations or
otherwise makes statements about the future, such statements are
forward-looking and are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties
that could cause actual results to differ materially from the statements
made. These factors include the risks discussed in the Business
Description and Management's Discussion and Analysis sections of Veeco's
Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2010 and in
our subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, current reports on Form
8-K and press releases .Veeco does not undertake any obligation to
update any forward-looking statements to reflect future events or
circumstances after the date of such statements.
Source: Veeco Instruments Inc.
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