Last deal

$121.76M
Local Amount - EUR 135M

Amount

Series C

Stage

18.07.2024

Date

3

all rounds

$177.03M

Total amount

date founded

Financing round

General

About Company
Nearfield Instruments develops and markets High-Throughput Scanning Probe Metrology systems for semiconductor manufacturing.

Industry

Sector :

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Also Known As

NFI

founded date

12.01.2016

Number of employees

Company Type

For Profit

Last funding type

Series C

IPO status

Private

Description

The company's technology uses atomic scale probes to scan the surface of samples under investigation, providing clients with the ability to sense patterns and increase production yields and functionality of microchips. Nearfield Instruments' High-Throughput Scanning Probe Metrology systems are designed for advanced integrated circuits manufacturing process control, providing a solution for semiconductor metrology.
Legal Names

Legal name

Nearfield Instruments B.V.
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Roland van Vliet
Roland van Vliet

Roland van Vliet

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Nearfield Instruments
Nearfield Instruments

organization founded

1

Roland van Vliet

Hamed Sadeghian
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Hamed Sadeghian

Hamed Sadeghian received his PhD (with honors) in 2010 from Delft University of Technology. He continued his career as a Postdoctoral fellow, developing several sensing and instrumentation methods. In 2014, he also received his MBA from Leuven Vlerick Business School, Belgium. He was also co-founder, CTO and Managing Director of Nearfield Instrument B.V., to industrialize nanometrology equipment for the Semiconductor Industry. In addition to his work at TU/e, Hamed is currently Scientific Director and Principal Scientist of NOMI program at TNO, where together with his team, he invented and developed the parallel AFM as a sub-nm, high throughput metrology and inspection solution for Semicon market. He holds more than 40 patents, and has authored more than 70 technical papers and co-authored a book. He is a member of editorial advisory board of Sensors & Transducers Journal. He is also a member of technical committee of SENSORDEVICES conference since 2010 till present. He is also a recipient of several best paper awards. In 2012 he was awarded the title ‘TNO excellent researcher’.

current job

Nearfield Instruments
Nearfield Instruments

organization founded

1

Hamed Sadeghian

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Roland van Vliet

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Managing Director, CEO

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Hamed Sadeghian

Managing Director, CTO

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Arseniy Kalinin

AFM Specialist

Adam Chuang

Adam Chuang

D&E Application Team Lead

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