Bernhard Botters manages sales for the KLA Instruments™ group in Europe. With 3+ years of experience at KLA, his main area of focus are defect inspection and surface metrology of compound semiconductor wafers, including SiC and GaN. He started his career as an application engineer at Filmetrics and worked since then at different positions in the field of optical surface metrology. Bernhard received his Dipl.-Phys. at the University in Hamburg in 1998 with a focus on semiconductor physics.