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Ambios offers two means of isolating your SPM from
building vibrations, interior acoustic noise, and thermal drift caused by room
air movement. The high performance IsochamberTM features an integral Minus K
Technology negative-stiffness isolator which offers 1.5Hz horizontal and 0.5Hz
vertical natural frequencies. The economical AVIC model is a less expensive
option where isolation is achieved by placing the microscope onto a heavy mass
supported by soft springs within a closed chamber.
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This option to the 80um scanner for either the Q-Scope or U-SPM Models adds an active feedback positioning system to all three axes of motion. This approach results in scans which are 99.8% accurate in X and Y and 99% accurate in Z.
This optional software provides both a program window within the Ambios ScanAtomic control environment to create lithography processes with an easy to use script language, and a .dll link component which allows external programs (Visual Basic or C++) to control the SPM system via lithography function calls. Very powerful macro control programs may be created in this way.
Ambios offers a unique scan module designed for use with the Hysitron Triboscope nanomechanical tester. This interface module provides a full test platform for the quantitative determination of a surface's nanomechanical properties combined with the AFM's high resolution 3D imaging capability.
Using this option with either the Q-Scope or U-SPM Models, AFM scans can be performed under liquids. Liquid scanning is possible with both contact and intermittent-contact scanning modes
Available option for the Q-Scope which allows samples to be imaged at elevated temperatures to 250 C via a digital temperature controller.