Blue Line product update:
MCNT-500™: The original amorphous CNT solution for demanding depth metrology applications

• Controlled orientation: 3° or 12°:
  Tilt compensation within ±0.5° for enhanced access capabilities to bottom trench features
• Controlled shape:
  Precisely controlled length of 500 nm and uniform width of 30 nm
• Optimized cantilevers:
  Standard with k: 40 N/m, f: 320 KHz
  Softer cantilevers for force-controlling scanning modes available upon request
• Diamond-like hardness and durability:
  Exceptional wear resistance of diamond-like carbon for consistent
  performance and reduced cost per measurement
• Delivered with TrueDimensions:
  Datasheet for every single probe available online 24/7 via QR code

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Green Line product update:
biotool high-res:  carbon AFM probe for minimal tip-sample interactions and long-lasting performance

• Super sharp tip apex:
  Radius r: 2 nm
• Soft quartz cantilevers:
  Spring constant k: 0.1 N/m, Frequency f: 50 Hz
• Diamond-like carbon material:
  Hydrophobic
  Resistant against acids, basics, salt solutions and organic solvents
  Long lasting, non-brittle
  Extreme low tip degradation
• Gold reflex coating
  

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Publication update:
nanotools spherical AFM tips featured in research article

Discover how nanotools biosphere™ with controlled 150 nm spherical tip is applied to demonstrate the importance of precise tip geometry for plasmon-enhanced spectroscopies.

• Title: Understanding the plasmonics of nanostructured atomic force microscopy tips
  DOI: 10.1063/1.4964601
• Authors: A. Sanders, R. W. Bowman, L. Zhang, V. Turek, D. O. Sigle, A. Lombardi, L. Weller, and J. J. Baumberg
• Publication: Applied Physics Letters
• Publisher: AIP Publishing
• Date: 10 October 2016

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Reproduced from Appl. Phys. Lett. 109, 153110 (2016),
with the permission of AIP Publishing.

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Green Line product update:
biotool cell XXL:  carbon AFM probe for live cell imaging and dynamic processes

• 15 µm long tip: extra-long, conically shaped and tilt compensated.
• 25 nm tip radius: precisely fabricated gentle apex.
• Soft quartz cantilevers: Spring constant k: 0.1 N/m, Frequency f: 50 Hz.
• Diamond-like carbon material:
  Hydrophobic
  Resistant against acids, basics, salt solutions and organic solvents
  Long lasting, non-brittle
  Extreme low tip degradation
• Reflective coating: Gold reflex.

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Publication update:
nanotools spherical AFM tips featured in research article

Discover how nanotools biosphere ^TM with precise 50 nm spherical tip deposited on 0.2 N/m cantilevers is applied for imaging hydrogel samples to identify the formation of collagen fibrils during the fabrication process.

• Title: A tissue-mimetic nano-fibrillar hybrid injectable hydrogel for potential soft tissue engineering applications.
  DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-18523-3
• Authors: Neda Latifi, Meisam Asgari, Hojatollah Vali, Luc Mongeau, McGill University Montreal (Canada)
• Publication: Scientific Reports
• Publisher: Springer Nature
• Date: 18 January 2018

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Green Line product update:
biosphere™:  carbon AFM probes for nanoindentation and nanomechanical mapping

• Controlled tip radius: precisely fabricated spherical tips, available with 12 different radii: 20 nm - 2 µm.
  Every single tip radius extracted from NIST-traceable Hi-Res SEM measurements.
• Pre-calibrated cantilevers: individually pre-calibrated cantilever spring constant using Laser Doppler Vibrometer.
  k: 200 N/m - 0.2 N/m (other k available)
• Diamond-like hardness and durability: HDC/DLC sphere hardness (Young’s Modulus ≥ 800 GPa) for repeatable and long lasting deformation measurements and nanomechanical studies.
• Au reflex coating: other coatings available.
• Provided with TrueDimensions: 24/7 online availability of individual probe parameters.

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Publication update:
nanotools spherical and high resolution AFM tips featured in research article

Discover how nanotools biosphere™ is applied to estimate the elastic modulus of cylindrical micellar filaments using force volume analysis, and biotool high resolution was used for imaging spherical micelles and micellar filaments.

• Title: Micro-mechanical, continuum-mechanical, and AFM-based descriptions of elasticity in open cylindrical micellar filaments, DOI: 10.1039/c7sm00911a
• Authors: Meisam Asgari, McGill University (Canada)
• Publication: Soft Matter
• Publisher: The Royal Society of Chemistry
• Date: August 2017

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Used with permission from The Royal Society of Chemistry (LICENSE #: 4196420972218).
Copyright © 2017 The Royal Society of Chemistry. All rights reserved.

Conference proceedings update:
In-line AFM measurement of erosion and dishing behaviors at different CMP conditions

Experience how nanotools MCNT-100™ AFM tips are successfully applied to accurately extract demanding local height variations with long term reliability.

• Conference: International Conference on Planarization/CMP Technology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
• Session D: Equipment, CMP Fundamentals
• Date: Wednesday, October 11, 2017, 3:40 PM
• Title: In-line Atomic Resolution Local Nanotopography Variation Metrology for CMP Process
• Speaker (invited): Tae-Gon Kim, imec (Belgium)

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Publication update:
nanotools spherical AFM tips featured in conference proceedings

Learn how the stiffness of sputtered Au on polydimethylsiloxane as a function of Au layer thickness is extracted by using spherical full carbon AFM tips with 500 nm radius.

• Title: Morphology and conductivity of Au films on polydimethylsiloxane using (3-mercaptopropyl)trimethoxysilane (MPTMS) as adhesion promoter
  DOI: 10.1117/12.2219199
• Authors: Bekim Osmani, Hans Deyhle, Florian M. Weiss, Tino Töpper, Maria Karapetkova, Vanessa Leung, Bert Müller, University of Basel (Switzerland)
• Publication: SPIE Proceedings
• Publisher: SPIE
• Date: April 2016

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Publication update:
nanotools spherical AFM tips featured in research article

See how the differences between the mechanical properties of heterotypic collagen fibrils are reliably characterized using spherical full carbon AFM tips with 50 nm radius.

• Title: In vitro fibrillogenesis of tropocollagen type III in collagen type I affects its relative fibrillar topology and mechanics
  DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-01476-y
• Authors: Meisam Asgari, Neda Latifi, Hossein K. Heris, Hojatollah Vali, Luc Mongeau, McGill University Montreal (Canada)
• Publication: Scientific Reports
• Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
• Date: May 2017

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