Materials and Devices analyzed at ASM using AFM and related techniques

• Carbon fibers

• Aluminum coil and foil

• Steel coil

• Wood pulp

• Paper

• Coatings for paper

• Inks

• Ink jet heads

• Photographic film

• Nanoindentation, scratching and wear studies

• Paint coating systems

• Polymer latex particles and materials

• Polymers

• Polymer blends, copolymers

• Magnetic Disks

• Magnetic Recording heads (including magnetic imaging of active devices)

• Contaminants on surfaces

• Compact discs, CD-R, etc.

• DVD, DVD+RW, etc.

• Other optical discs

• Calibration specimens

• High accuracy measurements of size, shape and position of microscopic features (such as data marks)

• Optical gratings, with high accuracy measurement of groove profiles

• Optical fibers

• Ceramic fibers

• Hair

• Skin

• Collagen fibers

• Individual collagen molecules (measure molecular weight by length; image branched structures)

• Individual DNA molecules

• Biomedical implants:  hips, etc.  Test coupons, fresh and worn surfaces

• Medical diagnostic devices

• Pharmaceutical materials, structural characterization in context of performance attributes such as flowability and dissolution or to meet regulatory requirements for general characterization.

• Glass

• Silicon wafers

• Polished and superpolished surfaces

• Electrically active materials

• Surface potential measurements of active electrical devices

• Thin film materials:  roughness, grain visualization.

• Metrology of Semiconductor and other materials

• Corrosion samples

• Zirconium oxide

updated 04/09/2007

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