JPK
Instruments, a world-leading manufacturer of nanoanalytic instrumentation for
research in life sciences and soft matter, continue to expand its family of
high performance research systems with the announcement of the availability of
the NanoWizard® 3 NanoOptics AFM system.
Over the past decade, optical phenomena on the nanoscale have developed into an
exciting area of research. To study light on the nanoscale and especially its
interaction with matter, researchers look for methods with nanometer spatial
resolution. The combination of Light Microscopy-derived techniques and Scanning
Probe Microscopy is a powerful solution. This so-called Near-field Optical
Microscopy delivers optical information from sample surfaces with sub-wavelength
resolution.
JPK first coupled their NanoWizard AFM to a Raman spectrometer in 2003 starting
a new chapter for SPM and optics. Building strong relationships with the
nano-optics community, collaborating with home-builders and users worldwide has
enabled JPK to develop more powerful and flexible systems. JPK strongly
believes in combining techniques, in particular AFM with optics. This has
opened up a field of new applications including TERS/SERS, tip-enhanced
fluorescence, nanomanipulation with light, chemical surface analysis and
compound detection, metamaterials, developments of optically active components
such as dyes, markers, light sources and switches. A large number of user
publications underscore the success of this technology approach. Now, JPK
introduces their latest platform for AFM and optics - the NanoWizard3
NanoOptics system.
The NanoWizard NanoOptics head comes with excellent physical and optical access
to the sample from top and bottom as well as from front and side, even when the
head and condenser are in place. Additionally, it has an integrated port for
fiber SNOM applications.
The new system is ready for a broad range of applications from nanoscale
optical imaging by aperture and scattering-type SNOM to experiments involving
interactions of light with the sample such as absorption, excitation, nonlinear
effects and quenching. These include aperture fiber SNOM experiments where an
integrated fiber SNOM port in the NanoOptics head and the tuning fork module
allows hassle-free integration of techniques.
The NanoWizard3 NanoOptics AFM can be used in a large number of configurations.
The AFM system can be used for many more applications. It is also possible to
interface and run different heads such as the ForceRobot®300 and the CellHesion®200
or to use the TopViewOptics
TM.
A comprehensive brochure is available which shows many more applications areas
with examples from JPK users from around the globe. JPK develop, engineer and
manufacture instrumentation in Germany to the world-recognized standards of
German precision engineering, quality and functionality.
For further details of
the NanoWizard® AFM and other products in the JPK family of bio and nanoscale
instrumentation, please visit the
JPK web site (
www.jpk.com)
or
Facebook (
www.jpk.com/facebook).
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