NTEGRA Aura is a Scanning Probe Microscope for studies in the conditions of controlled environment and low vacuum.
The Q-factor of the cantilever in vacuum increases, thus gaining the sensitivity, reliability and accuracy of "probe-sample" light forces measurements. At that, the change from atmosphere pressure to 10-2 Torr vacuum provides the tenfold gain of Q-factor. By further vacuum pumping, Q-factor reaches its plateau and changes insignificantly. Thus, NTEGRA Aura presents the optimal "price/quality" ratio: comparing to the high-vacuum devices it needs much less time - only one minute - to get the vacuum that is needed for the tenfold Q-factor increase. At the same time the system is compact and easy to operate and maintain. As the NTEGRA platform product, NTEGRA Aura has built-in closed loop control for all the axes, optical system with 1 µm resolution and ability to work with more than 40 different AFM methods.
Due to the open architecture, the functionality of NTEGRA Aura can be widen essentially: specialized magnetic measurements with external magnetic field (horizontal, up to +/-0.2T; vertical, up to +/-0.02T), high-temperature experiments (heating up to 300 0 ? with temperature maintaining precision of 0.05 0 ?), etc.
| Scanning probe Microscopy |
| STM/ AFM (contact + semi-contact + non-contact) / Lateral Force Microscopy / Phase Imaging/Force Modulation/ Adhesion Force Imaging/ Magnetic Force Microscopy/ Electrostatic Force Microscopy/ Scanning Capacitance Microscopy/ Kelvin Probe Microscopy/ Spreading Resistance Imaging/ Lithography: AFM (Force and Current), STM |
Specifications
* Scanning head can be configured to serve as a stand-alone device for specimens of unlimited sizes.
** Optionally can be expanded to 200x200x20 um.
*** Built-in capacitive sensors have extremely low noise and any area down to 50x50 nm can be scanned with closed-loop control.
Applications
NTEGRA Aura allows to carry out the research of surface characteristics with nanometric resolution and near-surface physical fields of various objects that can be placed into vacuum.
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