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On-Demand Session: Unlocking the Potential of Your SEM: The Future of In-Situ Automated Nanoindentation with Bruker’s New PI 89 Auto SEM PicoIndenter

Meet the automated nanomechanical test instrument for ultimate high-throughput, co-localized imaging and metrology
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Introduction to PI 89 Auto

Presented by Sanjit Bhowmick, Ph.D., Senior Staff Scientist, Bruker (June 26, 2024)

       PRESENTATION HIGHLIGHTS:

  • [00:01:00] Nanoscale Testing Techniques offered by the PI 89 Auto
  • [00:04:36] Hysitron PI 89 Auto Dual Configuration rotation and tilt stage
  • [00:06:50] Facts and features about the Hysitron PI 89
  • [00:09:29] Accelerated Property Mapping (XPM) 
  • [00:11:45] Hysitron PI 89 Auto Workflow
  • [00:14:08] Hysitron PI 89 Auto application exemple: Structure-Property correlation of Cu-NB
Watch Now | 25 Minutes

PI 89 Demonstration

Presented by Kevin Schmalbach, Ph.D., Post Doctoral Scientist, Bruker (July 8, 2024)

       PRESENTATION HIGHLIGHTS:

  • [00:00:00] System overview
  • [00:02:33] Sample overview: laser-clad steel
  • [00:03:49] Finding the high-chromium region
  • [00:05:35] Signal set-up & calibration routine
  • [00:07:16] Scanning the sample 
  • [00:07:45] Setting up nano indentation parameters in TriboScan software
  • [00:12:26] Run the indentation test
  • [00:16:58] Mechanical property and hardness maps 
  • [00:19:00] Line Scan
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Question and Answer

       PRESENTATION HIGHLIGHTS:

  • [00:00:00] What are the capabilities of XPM mapping at high temperatures?
  • [00:01:12] Can PicoIndenters be used on a benchtop SEM?
  • [00:02:27] Does the PI 89 need to be installed and removed from the SEM each time you use it?
  • [00:04:09] Is it possible to rotate the sample after you align it from the indenture to the imaging position?
  • [00:05:02] How large of a map can you do with the PI 89 Auto?
  • [00:07:21] Can you do a displacement-controlled indentation map with the PI 89 Auto?