Application notes

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Basic techniques and recommended types of cantilevers and for different SPM applications.

 Contact AFM mode
Topography imaging: Contact mode. Ambient air and fluids.

 Noncontact AFM mode
Topography imaging: Noncontact mode. Vacuum conditions.

 Intermittent contact (Tapping) mode
Topography imaging: Intermittent contact (Tapping) mode. Ambient air and fluids.

 High Resolution Imaging
Topography imaging: Measuring features at the nanoscale using HI'RES probe.

 Phase imaging
Material - Sensitive Contrast: Phase imaging.

 Force Modulation
Material - Sensitive Contrast: Force Modulation.

 Lateral Force Microscopy
Material - Sensitive Contrast: Lateral Force Microscopy.

 Force Curves Analysis
Material - Sensitive SPM Techniques: Force Curves Analysis and Force Volume Imaging.

 Electric properties: Two-Pass modes
Dynamic SPM modes for mapping of electric properties of materials.

 Electric properties: Contact modes
Scanning Spreading Resistance Microscopy (SSRM), Scanning Capacitance Microscopy (SCM), etc.

 Electrochemical SPM
Study of the electronic properties and structure of electrodes and changes caused by chemical and electrochemical processes.

 Magnetic Force Microscopy
Two-pass techniques for the study of the magnetic properties.

 

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