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SmartSPM™ 1000

Stand Alone Atomic Force Microscope:
- Fully motorized AFM head for automated alignment and quick start;
- Low noise, low non-linearity, high resonant frequency AFM for extremely stable, low drift and fast scanning.

OmegaScope Reflection 4

OmegaScope™ 1000

Scanning Probe Hyperspectral Microimaging System:
- Direct top and side optical access for external laser illumination in TERS-like experiments;
- Upright and inverted optical configuration.

One more "Eye" to look

CombiScope™ 1000

- Combination of Scanning Probe Microscopy with inverted optics;
- Entry path for researchers in biology, spectroscopy and photonics, who work with transparent samples either in ambient or in liquid enviroment.

Cantilever

SPM accessories

A wide range of AFM probes, calibration grating and test samples.

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AFM image of Test Grating (3 microns pitch, 25 nm height), semicontact AFM mode, probe resonance frequency - 500 kHz, 30х30 microns scan area, 400×400 points. Scan rate increases from 2 to 20 lines per second.

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AFM image of Test Grating (3 microns pitch, 25 nm height), semicontact AFM mode, probe resonance frequency - 500 kHz, 12х12 microns scan area, 300×300 points. Scan rate increases from 3 to 30 lines per second.

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Magnetic Force Microscopy (MFM)

Investigate your samples using the SmartSPM scanning probe microscope in MFM mode!

Main features:

- High speed scanning of large areas (up to 100×100 microns) with high resolution;

- Optical viewing with 1 micron resolution;

- Measurements in magnetic field.

MFM image of ferrite garnet film

MFM image of ferrite garnet film

Optical image of domain structure in polarized light

Optical image of domain structure in polarized light

Download MFM examples


West Coast Application Lab address has been changed

  • Monday May 18,2009 09:21 AM
  • By admin
  • In News

The new address is:
West Coast Application Lab
353 Bel Marin Keys Blvd., Suite 7-8
Novato, CA 94949
Phone/Fax: 1-415-884-9500

EuroNanoForum 2009

  • Tuesday May 5,2009 07:55 AM
  • By admin
  • In Events

We would be pleased to meet you there!

EuroNanoForum 2009
Nanotechnology for Sustainable Economy
European and International Forum on Nanotechnology

2-5 June, 2009
Prague, Czech Republic

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Simultaneous AFM topography, TERS intensity and Raman Shift images of Si/SiO2 obtained using the Reflection system configuration.

Download reflection TERS results

*Data obtained with DEMO system at TII office (Tokyo).

*The research was conducted in Research Program on Development of Innovative Technology of Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST).

Measurement conditions:
Laser 632.8 nm, power on the sample - below 1 mW,
AFM - true non-contact mode, tapping amplitude 7 nm, exposure 0.1 sec/point,
AFM tip - gold coated.
Download Transmission TERS with AIST-NT AFM

* Data obtained with the DEMO system at Tokyo Instruments Inc. office (Tokyo).

Virus Like Particles (VLP)

  • Wednesday Mar 11,2009 12:53 PM
  • By mikhail
  • In Biology
Virus Like Particles

Virus like particles (VLP) formed by coat protein  Alternanthera mosaic potex virus (AltMV) in the absence of RNA. Sample courtesy of Prof. O. V. Karpova and Dr. M. V. Arhipenko, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Biology.

Ribonucleoprotein complexes

  • Wednesday Mar 11,2009 12:43 PM
  • By mikhail
  • In Biology
Ribonucleoprotein complexes

Ribonucleoprotein complexes in the form of  single tailed particles ( STPs) formed from RNA and coat  protein of Potato virus X as a result of the in vitro reconstruction.  Sample courtesy of Prof. O. V. Karpova and Dr. M. V. Arhipenko, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Biology.

Alternanthera mosaic potex virus

  • Wednesday Mar 11,2009 11:23 AM
  • By mikhail
  • In Biology
Alternanthera mosaic potex virus

Alternanthera mosaic potex virus.
Sample courtesy of Prof. O. V. Karpova and Dr. M. V. Arhipenko, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Biology.