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Combined height and phase AFM image of an impact co-polymer used for various consumer products ranging from car bumpers to yogurt cups, where lightness, strength and form are important properties. The material is a thermoplastic with inclusions of small elastomer domains.
The 3D image can be overlaid with the contrast of another image, for example the phase image of an AFM recording, or the Young’s Modulus map calculated from a force volume data set. This makes it possible to correlate for example topography and local elasticity.
The 3D module is very easy to use and fast to learn as there are ribbon buttons for switching into each of the different manipulation modes for changing the rotation, pitch, roll, zoom, z scale magnification, and directional light. Preset fallbacks are available so that it is always easy to return to a well-known view point.
In addition, the 3D module offers full flexibility for fast interactive inspection using mouse and keyboard short cuts. Learning these short cuts makes the 3D module an efficient inspection tool, as image details can be magnified, enhanced and viewed from different angles in a continuous flow.
Though the 3D impression is only meaning full for real 3D data (height images) then the 3D module will in fact generate projections of any image, allowing users to make impressive pictures of for example also SEM image data.
Animation movies are easily made by creating just a few key frames. SPIP™ will then interpolate between these fix-points. The animations can be exported to avi and mpeg video files.
STM image of atomically resolved molybdenum disulfide nanoclusters on a gold Au(111) substrate in a study of the catalytic properties of MoS carried out at the University of Århus.
AFM image of a Tipcheck (Aurora NanoDevices Inc.) sample consisting of sharp randomly oriented peaks, used for blind tip reconstruction using the Tip Characterization module in SPIP™.
AFM image of a replica of the foil inside a DVD
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