MultiMode 8-HR
MultiMode 8-HR
The MultiMode® platform's long history of success is based on its combination of superior resolution, performance, and unparalleled versatility and productivity. The MultiMode 8-HR atomic force microscope (AFM) further advances these capabilities to provide significant improvements in imaging speed, resolution, and nanomechanical performance with higher speed PeakForce Tapping®, enhanced PeakForce QNM®, new FASTForce Volume, and exclusive Bruker probes technology.
NanoScope Open-Access Toolbox
MultiMode 8-HR offers a variety of options to monitor signals, modify real-time operation, and implement custom offline analysis. Standard NanoScope® tools exist for direct MATLAB import of data and ASCII export.You can monitor internal signals and customize signal inputs with Virtual SAM, or expand your capabilities with optional SAM lll. Control of AFM functions are available through optional nanolithography and NanoScope COM interface. Ultimately, you can leverage NanoScope Open-Access capabilities to extend your experiments beyond standard AFM modes to develop your own modes for obtaining new unique datasets.
PeakForce-HR Module
The MultiMode 8-HR has been designed to take the fullest advantage of PeakForce Tapping technology, providing 6X faster PeakForce Tapping imaging in air compared to most conventional AFMs, with no loss of performance.
Advanced Environmental Control
MultiMode 8-HR is available with both sample heating and cooling capabilities. The low-range option enables heating and cooling between -35°C and 100°C in either air or fluids. The high-range option heats up to 250°C and is often used to study polymer phase transitions. It is unique in that it allows both gas purging to prevent sample oxidation and tip heating to prevent tip contamination. Environmental control accessories are available both integrated with the heater/cooler options or as separate environmental chambers.
Powered by the NanoScope 6 AFM Controller
Featuring higher speeds, lower noise, and greater AFM mode flexibility, the NanoScope 6 controller allows users to harness the full potential of our high-performance Dimension and MultiMode AFM systems. This latest generation controller provides unprecedented accuracy, precision, and versatility for nanoscale surface measurements in every application.
NanoScope 6 uniquely enables Bruker AFMs to:
- Operate in more imaging modes than is possible with competing systems, including unique and advanced AFM modes that require complex control and analysis;
- Collect accurate, quantitative data for nanoelectrical and nanomechanical property measurements in every application; and
- Optimize and customize scanning parameters to meet even the most demanding research and industry measurement requirements.
Contact us to discuss your measurement requirements and options for system specialization, or submit a sample run request to learn how a Bruker AFM is best suited for your applications.
Expand Your Applications with AFM Modes
With an unrivalled suite of imaging modes available, Bruker has an AFM technique for every investigation.
Built on the backbone of core imaging modes—Contact Mode and Tapping Mode—Bruker offers AFM modes that allow users to probe their samples’ electrical, magnetic, or materials properties. Bruker’s innovative new PeakForce Tapping technology represents a new core imaging paradigm that has been incorporated into several modes, providing topographic, electrical, and mechanical properties data in parallel.
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Hear What Our Customers Have to Say
With the help of Conductive Atomic Force Microscopy (C-AFM) analysis in the PeakForce Tunneling AFM (PeakForce TUNA) module of the MultiMode 8, we were able to understand the location-specific nanoscale electrical conductivity of doped semiconductors. This has led us to explore many new materials and their electronic properties at nanoscale. We have been using the MultiMode 8 for the past three years and I must say this instrument is really powerful and robust.
For us, the MultiMode 8 is truly a workhorse. We are very productive with it, publishing up to 20 papers per year. We find it invaluable for its closed small-volume liquid cell capabilities.
With the combined application of PeakForce QNM and PeakForce TUNA we were uniquely able to determine the nanostructure and ionic conductivity distribution on humidity sensitive ionomers with unprecedented quality and resolution. For us, the versatility and flexibility of the MultiMode 8 AFM with these modes opens the path for numerous explorations of materials for electrochemical energy applications.
I recently upgraded my NanoScope III MultiMode AFM to the new MultiMode 8, and I really love the new ScanAsyst mode for collecting AFM images. It is so simple, and it makes training new students a breeze. If I align the laser on the tip, the student can begin collecting his/her own images in less than 30 minutes. This is so much easier than tapping mode, and the images are just as good. I was quite impressed.
