The NanoFlip, a versatile nanomechanical tester, boasts precise XYZ motion capabilities for sample positioning during testing and employs a flip mechanism to facilitate sample positioning for imaging. The accompanying InView software offers an array of test methods encompassing various testing protocols and empowers users to devise their own unique and innovative test procedures.
The InForce 50 actuator demonstrates consistent performance in both vacuum and ambient environments. Furthermore, the InView software enables the capture of SEM or other microscope images seamlessly synchronized with the corresponding mechanical test data.
A groundbreaking FIB-to-Test technology is incorporated, permitting a 90° sample tilting. This seamless transition from FIB to indentation testing eliminates the need to remove the sample, simplifying the process.
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Features
- Extensive selection of pre-configured nanomechanical test methods for enhanced user-friendliness
- Employs the high-speed InQuest controller electronics with a data acquisition rate of 100 kHz and a time constant of 20µs
- Utilizes the InForce 50 actuator for both capacitance displacement measurement and electromagnetic force actuation, featuring interchangeable tips
- Incorporates a precision XYZ motion system for precise sample positioning
- Features a unique software-integrated tip-calibration system, ensuring swift and accurate tip calibration
- Seamlessly captures SEM video for synchronized integration with test data
- Utilizes the InView control and data review software, compatible with Windows® 10, and includes a method developer for user-driven experiments
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Applications
- Ongoing stiffness measurement
- Hardness and modulus assessments following the Oliver-Pharr method
- Dynamic Mechanical Analysis (DMA)
- Rapid generation of material property maps
- Conformance to ISO 14577 hardness testing standards
- Precise quantitative evaluations of scratch resistance and wear characteristics
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Industries
- Educational institutions, research facilities, and academic laboratories
- Applications in MEMS (Micro-electro-mechanical systems)
- Production of pillars and microspheres
- Manufacturers of batteries and their components
- Material manufacturing for structural compression, tensile, and fracture testing
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