Nanoindentor - nanomechanical testing

Name and Model: MicroMaterials NanoTest MM-NT600 platform 3

Contact Person: Ari Halvari
ari.halvari [at] savonia.fi. +358-44-785 5579.

Year of Manufacture: 2010

Year of Installation: 2010

General Technical Information: Instrument for making nanometer -level mechanical testing with diamond indenters. Creep and stress relaxation tests. Impact testing. Includes 3D surface profilometer. Suitability for testing in liquids. 

Desrcription of Use: For nanometer level mechanical testing. Main application areas are: material science, thin layer coatings, pharmaceutical tablets, biological objects (cells etc), dentistry, wood and paper.

Key Features and Accessories:

- 3D piezo profiler for scanning with the tip (200x200µm area). 

- Single&multi point Impact testing (max 7µm).

- Liquid cell. 

- Optical microscope with 4 objectives.

- Tips: diamond berkovich, cube corner, 100µm spherical indenter. 

- Minus K1 anti vibration table &  environmental cabinet.

- Temperature control with heater ( 0.2 K) 

Key Specifications:

System compliance 0.5 nm/mN.

Minimum contact force 1-5µN. Load range 0-500 mN. Load resolution 30 nN. Displacement resolution 0.01 nm. Max indentation depth 50 µm. 

Re-positioning accuracy from microscope image 1µm and 2 nm by using 3D piezo profiler. 

Impact testing. Horizontal positioning of the sample. 

Measurements can be in queue (max 100 separate experiments).

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Location: Savonia University of Applied Sciences, School of Engineering and Technology, Microkatu 1, 70201 Kuopio, Finland.

City: Kuopio