Watch the show interview from this year’s Microscopy and MicroAnalysis 2024, by Instructinate… featuring Quantum Design’s Sales Director, Rick Hapanowicz. In the interview, Rick talks to Eric from Instructinate
In the interview Rick talks a little about Quantum Design itself:
“We’re a lab ready instrumentation company, we’re famous for our MPMS 3 Squid Magnetometer, our Physical Property Measurement System, and our OptiCool optical access system. These are all low temperature instruments.”
Rick talks about the QD Microscopy FusionScope – the correlative microscopy that combines AFM and SEM in an integrated instrument. Eric asks about the combination and the difference with the FusionScope being that “it’s not an AFM that goes into an SEM, it’s an AFM with an SEM attached to it”..
Rick explains that the FusionScope was the brainchild of QD in San Diego and QD Microscopy in Germany. It was built from the ground up to combine AFM and SEM and the resulting built-in instrument plugs into a standard wall power socket. Customers have been using it to quickly characterise and understand their samples and measurement capabilities. Eric asks about instruments sold and in the field already…
“Yes, that’s correct. New things on the product we have introduced [include] EDS… another layer in this correlative microscopy world. So you can do elemental analysis. The second thing we did was a new force mode. So the nice thing about the FusionScope is you can see and locate elements of your sample. So if you have a nanoparticle, a nanostructure, a nanopillar, you can position the tip on top of that pillar and then do a force applied and force retracted measurement. The FusionScope’s tilting stage lets you see the sample and see where precisely where you’re locating the tip.
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The third thing is we’ve added nanopositioners, nano-manipulators, nano-measurement systems. So we built a platform to hold these nano-manipulators. in the system so people can do characterisation measurements on the system. They might have a particle they want to manipulate, they might want to twist some pieces of graphine… so that’s the newest addition to the FusionScope system”.
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Eric praises the FusionScope, saying “Well, it’s a really fascinating instrument, I think it looks very cool, it’s very small [so] it’ll fit anywhere“.
There are so many potential applications for the FusionScope, it’s no wonder that it’s being talked about around the world.
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