Veeco Upcoming Investor Events

Veeco Instruments Inc. (Nasdaq: VECO) today announced that its management is scheduled to present at the following webcasted events:

Wednesday, May 22, 2013 at 3:40PM ET: Barclays Global TMT Conference at the Crowne Plaza, New York, NY.

Wednesday, June 5, 2013 at 1:45PM PT: Bank of America Merrill Lynch Global Tech Conference at the Ritz Carlton, San Francisco, CA.

The presentations listed above will be broadcast live or on replay via webcast and available on the Veeco website at www.veeco.com. Presentation material will be posted to the Veeco website no later than 8:00AM ET the morning of the presentation.

Veeco is also scheduled to participate in the following non-webcasted investor events:

Wednesday, May 29, 2013: Credit Suisse Semiconductor Supply Chain Conference in Boston, MA.

Tuesday, June 4, 2013: Canaccord Genuity LED Lighting Conference, London UK.

About Veeco

Veeco’s process equipment solutions enable the manufacture of LEDs, power electronics, hard drives, MEMS and wireless chips. We are the market leader in MOCVD, MBE, Ion Beam and other advanced thin film process technologies. Our high performance systems drive innovation in energy efficiency, consumer electronics and network storage and allow our customers to maximize productivity and achieve lower cost of ownership. For information on our company, products and worldwide service and support, please visit www.veeco.com.

To the extent that this news release discusses expectations or otherwise makes statements about the future, such statements are forward-looking and are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from the statements made. These factors include the risks discussed in the Business Description and Management's Discussion and Analysis sections of Veeco's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2011 and in our subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, current reports on Form 8-K and press releases. Veeco does not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statements to reflect future events or circumstances after the date of such statements.