Available Coatings
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Reflex Coating
(for Pointprobe® and Arrow Silicon AFM Probes)
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- 30 nm thick Aluminium coating on the backside
- enhances reflectivity of the laser beam by a factor of 2.5
- prevents light from interfering within the cantilever
- strongly recommended for thin cantilevers if the coating
is compatible with the application
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Hard Magnetic Coating (for Pointprobe® AFM Probes)
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- 40 nm thick Cobalt alloy coating on the tip-side
- permanent magnetization of the tip
- tip needs to be magnetized by means of an external strong magnet
- Soft magnetic samples may be influenced by the tip
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Soft Magnetic Coating (for Pointprobe® AFM Probes)
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- Soft magnetic coating on the tip-side
- coercitivity of app. 0.75 Oe
- remancence magnetization of app. 225 emu/cm3
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Diamond Coating (for Pointprobe® AFM Probes)
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- 100 nm thick coating of polycrystalline diamond on the tip-side
- unsurpassed hardness of the tip
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PtIr5 Coating
(for Pointprobe® AFM Probes and for some Arrow™ Probes, others on request) |
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- 25nm thick double layer of chromium and platinum iridium5
- layer on doth sides of the product
- the layer enhances the conductivity and allows electrical contact
- detector side coating enhances the reflectivity of the laser beam by a factor of 2
- the layer is stress compensated and wear resistant
- bending due to stress is less than 2°
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Gold Coating (for Pointprobe® AFM Probes on request) |
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- 70nm thick chromium/gold coating on the backside of the cantilever
- 70nm thick chromium/gold coating on both sides of the probe
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Chromium/Titanium/Gold Coating
(for Hybrid-Nitride™ AFM Probes) |
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- 70 nm thick chromium/titanium/gold coating on the backside (on both sides for tipless version available)
- enhances reflectivity of the laser beam
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| Titanium/Gold Coating (for Arrow™ Tipless Cantilevers)
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- 70 nm titanium / 30 nm gold coating on the top side
- enhances reflectivity of the laser beam
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