Nano Indentation Tester (NHT)

Applications

The Nano-Indentation Tester has been designed to provide surface mechanical characterization data  by indenting to depths at the nanometer-micron scales. This nanoindenter can be used to characterize organic, inorganic, soft or hard materials and coatings. Examples are thin and multilayer PVD, CVD, PECVD, photoresists, paints, lacquers, and many other types of films and coatings. Bulk material surface mechanical characterization can also be performed on hard or soft materials, including metals, semiconductors, glasses, ceramics, composites, biomimetic and in vitro biomaterials.

Features

• Unique top-referencing surface determination
• Automated optical microscope camera inspection before and after testing
• Feedback-controlled normal force
• Differential capacitive measurement of indentation depths
• PC software package for automated data acquisition, storage and evaluation

Options

• Vacuum or environmental control enclosure
• Atomic Force Microscope
• High resolution camera
• High resolution (0.25 um) X-Y sample stage