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Rick DeMeis
Veeco Instruments (Plainview, NY) has received more than $4.5 million in orders for its Critical Dimension Atomic Force Microscopes from worldwide semiconductor makers. . . . Latest x-ray CT-tube from Toshiba America Medical Systems (Tustin, CA) cools in five minutes, half the time of current tubes. . . . Lam Research (Fremont, CA) sold about $10 million worth of its Transformer-Coupled Plasma flat-panel display etching systems for 1997 delivery. . . . An Omron (Tokyo, Japan) proprietary multilayer-film-technology LED sensor distinguishes hard-to-determine yellows and whites.