NanoTest™ Vantage

 

The Comprehensive Nanomechanical Testing Centre that’s now smarter, faster and even more flexible

 

Launched in June 2011

 

Optimised in terms of:

 

1. Performance

2. Speed of throughput

3. Ease of use

 

With the NanoTest Vantage system, Micro Materials Ltd. offers a universal platform for different methods to characterize the mechanical properties of surfaces and thin films. The modularity of the system allows to combine all the measurement modules or to tailor the system according dedicated applications.

The new base frame made of rigid ceramic together with new, high resolution electronics, provides even more precise measurements with highest load and displacement resolution at lowest drift rate. High precise measurements can be performed much faster than before. Uniquely for such kind of instruments.

 

Two loading heads alternatively or in combination features nano and micro hardness testing. The special pendulum design, provides full modularity and excellent performance, as well as full ISO 14577 and ASTM 2546 compliant. The NanoTest has the lowest drift rate of all instruments in the market, either at room temperature or at elevated temperature, which allows to apply a wide range of loading rates during indentation for very slow or fast loading.

 

The NanoTest system includes and serves the following methods and applications:

 

Nanoindentation

 

• Measurement of hardness, modulus and viscoelastic behavior of solids and thin films by micro and nano indentation technique.
• Investigation of hardness and modulus vs depths
• Map mechanical properties across an area of interst
• Quasi-static and dynamic testing

 

 

Nano-impact and fatigue

 

• Investigate fracture and failure behavior
• Measure material damping coefficient
• Investigate high strain reate behavior

 

 

Nano-scratch and wear

 

• Assess critacl scratch loads and friction properties
• Inverstigate cycles to failure for wear protection

 

 

Nano-fretting

 

• Accelerated reciprocating wear test
• Low contact pressure to allow high cycle investigations (up to 1 million cycles)

 

Controlled environmental conditions to assess true ‘in-service’ properties

 

• High temperature nanoindentation, nanoscratch and nanoimpact to 750°C
• Low temperature nanoindenation and nanoscratch to -30°C
• With sample and probe immersed in liquid
• In reduced oxygen/purged conditions
• Under controlled humidity levels

 

 

PDF Downloads

 

Nano Test Vantage brochure

 

Module and options

 

Nanoindentation

Nano_Scratch & Wear

MicroTest 20N high load head

Liquid Cell

Nano-Impact & fatigue

High Temperature Module

2D & 3D Imaging

 

Application notes

 

NanoTest Vantage for the AEROSPACE Sector

NanoTest Vantage for the AUTOMOTIVE Sector

NanoTest Vantage, next generation nanomechanical testing for MICROELECTRONICS Sector

NanoTest Vantage, next generation nanomechanical testing for optimizing WEAR RESISTANT COATINGS

NanoTest Vantage, solutions to optimize PHARMACEUTICALS Manufacrure

NanoTest Vantage, next generation nanomechanical testing of POLYMER MATERIALS

NanoTest Vantage, comprehensive nanomechanical testing to mimic in-vivo conditions for the BIOMEDICAL Sector

 

 

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