(Veeco Instruments Inc.: Tucson, AZ) -- Veeco Instruments Inc., a global provider of precision instrumentation and metrology solutions for scientific and industrial markets, announced a new low-cost member of its ContourGT family of noncontact, 3-D optical surface profilers. The ContourGT-K0 Surface Metrology System combines streamlined architecture and functionality with significantly improved measurement and computing hardware and software, making it the industry’s most advanced and easiest-to-use low-cost, 3-D optical surface profiler.

“With its intuitive user interface and improved throughput capabilities, our ContourGT product line is very well received by our industrial and research customers,” says Mark R. Munch, Ph.D., executive vice president of Veeco metrology and instrumentation. “By adding the low-cost K0 version, we have brought top metrology performance and ease of use to the more cost-sensitive quality assurance, quality control, production, and research and development applications, including precision machining, medical, printing, high-brightness LED, and solar.”

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