Manufacturers of Scanning Probe Microscopes Merge
Nov 1, 1998 — ThermoSpectra Corp. of Franklin, Mass., has acquired TopoMetrix Corp. of Santa Clara, Calif., for $8 million. ThermoSpectra's subsidiary, Park Scientific Instruments Inc. of Sunnyvale, Calif., will merge with the acquired company under the name ThermoMicroscopes. The new venture will manufacture high-resolution scanning probe microscopes for the materials science and industrial applications market. TopoMetrix, headquartered only four miles away from Park Scientific, manufactures and sells...