Alpha-Step

KLA-Tencor is one of the leading manufacturers of stylus and optical profilers.

Products:

- Alpha-Step D-100 Stylus Profiler 

- Alpha-Step D-120 Stylus Profiler

- Alpha-Step IQ Stylus Profiler

- P-6 Stylus Profiler 

- P-16+ Surface Profiler

- MicroXAM-100 Optical Profiler

- MicroXAM Optical Surface Profiler

Applications

- Measuring of surface topology, surface topography, roughness and profile.

- Very smooth surfaces in the order of nanometer roughness up to very rough surfaces.

- Semiconductor structures, MEMS, solar technology.

- Measurement of thin, transparent layers of some nanometers thickness up to several hundred micrometer thickness.  

- Interferometry

- Optical Profiling

- Quality control in a production environment