In October 2010, Bruker Corporation acquired the Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) and the Optical Industrial Metrology (OIM) instruments businesses of Veeco Instruments, Inc. (NASDAQ: VECO). The AFM scientific instruments business headquartered in Santa Barbara, California, as well as the OIM business based in Tucson, Arizona, along with the global AFM/OIM field sales, applications and support organizations, have now become part of the Bruker Nano Division, which is part of the Bruker AXS Group. The location in Camarillo is for SPM probes.
AFM, deposition