Nearfield Instruments

Nearfield Instruments is a high-tech scale-up active in the semiconductor industry. The company develops and supplies groundbreaking measurement solutions capable of measuring critical 3D nanostructures in a non-destructive manner during the manufacturing process of microchips. Measuring these structures is essential for producing good chips.

The technology developed by Nearfield Instruments is based on the so-called Scanning Probe Microscopy (SPM), which scans the surface of chips in three dimensions with an atomically sharp probe. Nearfield Instruments has improved and refined SPM to achieve significant measurement speeds and to non-destructively measure complex 3D chip structures. This gives Nearfield Instruments a unique position in the industry: current competitors cannot perform full 3D measurements, or at least not in a non-destructive manner.