Bruker receives $3M 3D microscope order for consumer display testing

Nov. 12, 2012

Tucson, AZ--Bruker received a more than $3 million dollar order for its ContourGT-X 3D optical microscopes from a leading provider of consumer displays.

Gail Overton

Bruker won a $3 million dollar plus order for 3D microscope test and measurement systems from a large manufacturer of consumer displays.

Tucson, AZ--The Nano Surfaces Division of Bruker received a more than $3 million dollar order from a leading provider of consumer displays for Bruker’s self-calibrating ContourGT-X three-dimensional (3D) optical metrology microscopes, which Bruker says will help the customer to dramatically reduce production and test and measurement costs while maintaining high quality for expanded production of the customer's larger, higher-density displays.

"Display manufacturers are working to deliver sharper images with brighter colors on bigger screens while lowering power consumption of their products," said Mark R. Munch, president, Bruker MAT Group and Bruker Nano Surfaces Division. "This means continuously pushing the limits of their production tooling to higher and higher levels of precision while increasing throughput in their factories to drive economies of scale. The ContourGT-X 3D optical microscope can quantify dimensions that are critical for high-fidelity, high-pixel-count displays, and identify defective features with greater speed and higher sampling rates than other techniques. The end result is a substantial increase in yield that can pay back the cost of the instrument in a short period of time."

"The customer bought a single ContourGT-X 3D optical microscope and tried it in their factory," added Rob Loiterman, executive VP and GM of Bruker's Stylus and Optical Metrology Business. "Their work with this first instrument demonstrated its breadth of measurement capabilities, ease of use and exceptionally high throughput to meet the demanding metrology requirements of their latest generation product. Based on this experience, the customer placed a larger multi-system order that puts the ContourGT-X at the core of their quality assurance efforts."

The ContourGT 3D optical microscope family has dual-LED illumination and high vertical resolution for improved sensitivity and stability, enabling non-contact 3D surface metrology in difficult applications and environments. Bruker Corporation provides scientific instruments and solutions for molecular and materials research, as well as for industrial and applied analysis.

SOURCE: Bruker; www.bruker.com/news-records/single-view/article/bruker-wins-over-3-million-in-orders-for-consumer-display-solution.html

About the Author

Gail Overton | Senior Editor (2004-2020)

Gail has more than 30 years of engineering, marketing, product management, and editorial experience in the photonics and optical communications industry. Before joining the staff at Laser Focus World in 2004, she held many product management and product marketing roles in the fiber-optics industry, most notably at Hughes (El Segundo, CA), GTE Labs (Waltham, MA), Corning (Corning, NY), Photon Kinetics (Beaverton, OR), and Newport Corporation (Irvine, CA). During her marketing career, Gail published articles in WDM Solutions and Sensors magazine and traveled internationally to conduct product and sales training. Gail received her BS degree in physics, with an emphasis in optics, from San Diego State University in San Diego, CA in May 1986.