Bulletins d'applications Indentation

Influence of indenter tip radius on the scratch resistance of an automotive clearcoat

Intrinsic bone tissue quality is altered in osteoporosis and selectively influenced by its treatments (NHT)

The Influence of Surface Roughness on Instrumented Indentation Testing (IIT) (NHT/MHT)

Investigation of creep behaviour using Micro or Nano Indentation Tester (MHT/NHT)

Investigation of the surface fracture resistance of a SiN coating by Impact testing (NTR)

Temperature-Specific and Dynamic Indentation Testing

Indentation, Tribology and Scratch Test Standards

- Biomedical Applications
- Micro-mechanical properties of calcium phosphate coatings for titanium prostheses
- Adhesion of contact lens coatings
- Mechanical properties of teeth materials
- Controlled drug release valves
- Scratch resistance of arterial implants
- TiN coating for hip prostheses
- Hardness of bone tissue
- Characterization of Tin Oxide coatings for biomedical applications

- Micro-Electronic Applications
- Nano-Scratch Tester (NST) for characterizing anti-stiction coatings for Microsystems
- In-situ Integrated Circuit (IC) characterization with the Nano Hardness Tester (NHT)
- Quality control of Micro-Slit reflective coating with the Nano-Scratch Tester (NST)

- Nanoindentation with spherical indenters for characterization of stress-strain properties
- Characterization of IC bonded gold wires with the Nano Hardness Tester (NHT)
- New Nano-Scratch Tester (NST) allows better magnetic hard disk characterization

- New LOC module for the SFM provides high resolution frictional contrast
- Characterization of Tribological transfer films using combined NHT/SFM

- MST Swinging Module for variable frequency scratch testing
- Combined NHT/SFM for investigation the mechanical properties of Cr2O3 thin films
- New Industrial Calotest allows greater fl exibility for measuring over/undersized samples

- New Industrial Calotest for improved coating thickness determination
- Micro Hardness Tester (MHT) for fracture toughness determination of brittle materials
- New Tribometer option for reciprocating wear testing of plasticised tickets
- Low-load Micro Scratch Tester (MST) for characterization of thin polymer films

- Forthcoming Nano Scratch Tester (NST) for characterization of ultra-thin films
- Micro structured silicon wafers compared with the CSM Tribometer
- Combined NHT/SFM for investigating the tip defect of common indenters

- Micro Scratch Tester (MST) for assessing the scratch resistance of SiO2 passivation layers
- High-Vacuum Tribometer for MoS2 alloy characterization
- Combined NHT/SFM for characterization of Silicon materials

- New integrated SFM objective for better characterization of NHT indentations
- Modified Micro Scratch Tester (MST) for im­proved force resolution at low loads
- Hard coating characterisation with the CSM Tribometer