Sarfus 3D-Imm: New equipment for nanometric sample characterization in water

Date Announced: 14 Sep 2010

Nanolane is proud to announce the launch of its new equipment SARFUS 3D-IMM dedicated to the topographic characterization of nanometric samples in water.

Equipment for characterization in water are still rare, relatively complex to operate and do not offer real-time images of samples. SARFUS 3D-IMM is designed to match the needs of the engineering and research community, especially in the Life Science but also in Thin Film and Surface Treatment areas. Indeed, SARFUS 3D-IMM is dedicated to the observation of nano-objects in real-time and to the thickness measurements of ultra-thin films in water.

Like the other SARFUS products, SARFUS 3D-IMM is based on SEEC optical technique that uses specific nonreflecting surfaces for cross-polarized reflected light microscopy. These surfaces -the Surfs- are used instead of standard microscope slides and generate a contrast enhancement of about 2 orders of magnitude, extending the application fields of optical microscopy toward the nanoworld.

Thanks to the absence of scanning and its easiness of use, SARFUS 3D-IMM equipment opens new perspectives for the nano-characterization in aqueous media by allowing dynamic studies of nanometric structures and rapid quality control of samples. In addition, the equipment is proposed with a powerful 3D topographic software for complete characterization (layer thicknesses, section profiles, roughnesses...) of nanometric samples.

The main applications concerned by this innovation are:
• Life Science
• Biological objects
• Vesicles
• Lipid bilayers
• Biochips
• Cell adhesion
• Thin films & Surface Treatment
• Polyelectrolytes
• Sensitive films (LCST)
• Nano-films
• Polymer patterns

The main features of SARFUS 3D-IMM equipment are:
• User friendly & Fast processing
• Repeatability : 0.1nm (according to ISO standard 17025)
• Z-sensibility limit: 0.2nm
• Range of measurement: 1 to 60nm
• Lateral resolution : 330nm
• Live video acquisition
• Time lapse (up to 15 image per second)
• Non destructive, no labelling
• Compatibility with fluorescence

Contact

E-mail: nanolane@eolane.com

Web Site: www.nano-lane.com/