The Wisconsin Centers for Nanoscale Technology has received funding from the VCRGE Core revitalization program and the UW-Madison MRSEC to replace our existing Atomic Force Microscope. A Bruker instruments ICON large sample stage high resolution system is currently being installed in the Nanoscale Imaging and Analysis Center and should be available in Jan 2021.
Features include:
- Contact Mode
- Lateral Force Microscopy
- TappingMode™
- PeakForce Tapping™
- ScanAsyst™
- PhaseImaging™
- LiftMode™ (enables MFM/EFM)
- Force curve and pulling
- Force volume
- Surface Potential (Kelvin Probe Microscopy)
- Torsional Resonance Mode
- Piezoresponse Microscopy
- Fast Tapping with scan rates up to 91kHz
- Peak Force QNM (Quantitative Nano Mechanical) software allow for quantitative mapping of nano-mechanical properties