This is a small sampling of the 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