Product features

Silicon cantilever for AC mode

TipView Design : for exact probe positioning
New Concept Chip : easy to handle with tweezers
Low Resistive Silicon : for anti-electrostatic charge

Cantilever for Biological Sample Measurements in Water

Nanoscale Measurement
Force Curve Measurement
Observing Dynamic Behavior of Bio Sample in water

The ideally vertical side walls of the chip have two remarkable features.

1) Ease in chip handling

Vertical side walls provide larger contact area to grab the chip by tweezers compared with conventional trapezoidal chip cross section. You can grab the chip by tweezers with stability, and avoid the loss of chip by bungled handling. The “New Concept Chip” can save your chip cost.

2) Eliminate problems with chipping and debris

Chipping and debris of silicon chip would interrupt excitation of the chip by PZT when they are inserted between chip holder and chip. Vertical side walls can reduce the chipping and debris of silicon chip when grabbing the chip by tweezers.

The tip is located on the very end of the cantilever. This feature allows you to set the tip over a point of interest on the sample, easily and precisely, if you use an AFM combined with an optical microscope.

The tetrahedral shape is ideal for achieving a point terminated tip. In addition to the geometrical dimensions of the tip, the tip is further sharpened with our exclusive sharpening process.