Acquired by VEECO. Nanodevices Inc research, develop, manufacture, and sell atomic force microscope cantilevers. The atomic force microscope (AFM) works by "feeling" a surface to generate an image - much in the same way a person can read a page of Braille by "feeling" the topography of the page. This technique is the most powerful form of imaging available. The AFM can resolve individual atoms. The sensitivity of this technique is determined by the sharpness of the "finger" that is doing the "feeling". We make those fingers (called cantilevers) and we make the apex of the tip at the end of the cantilever a few nanometers wide. This type of imaging is very important to the semiconductor industry, magnetic media, polymers, and biotechnology. We intend to make this technology work 10 times faster
