Highly Accurate Nanoflip Nanoindenter for Measuring With Precision

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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