Super Sharp Diamond-Like Carbon (DLC) tips with typical curvature radius 1nm grown on the probe series NSG10.

Super sharp diamond-like carbon (DLC) tips* with typical curvature radius 1nm are extremely useful for obtaining high resolution on objects with sizes of several nanometers. DLC tips have very long lifetime due to the high material durability. DLC tips can be grown on any standard probe series.To guarantee 20nm working length of DLC tips TEM is used. 10% from total number of probes in the batch are selected for testing. At least 80% of those probes should have the only DLC tip which lengh is exceeded by 20nm others DLC tips on the same probe. In this case the whole batch is considered as passed the TEM test. On the surfaces with roughness bigger than 20nm double images are possible. 

 

DLC tip specification:

Material – diamond-like carbon

Curvature radius 

Working length 

Probe Specification:

Chip size – 3,6x1,6x0,4mm^3

Reflective side coating – Au

Chip has one rectangular cantilever<

 

Probe series

 

Cantilever length,
L±5µm

 

Cantilever width,
W±3µm

 

Cantilever thickness, µm

Resonant frequency, kHz

Force constant, N/m

min

typical max

min

typical max

min

typical max

NSG10*

100

35

1.7

2.0

2.3

190

255

325

5.5

11.5

22.5

* - DLC tips can be grown on any other probe series by request