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Revolutionary Keysight Express Test Option for the Nano Indenter G200

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Express Test Overview

A recent recipient of the prestigious R&D 100 Award, the Keysight Express Test option enables the world’s fastest nanoindentation for mechanicalproperties mapping. This award-winning technology, which has been designed and optimized for exclusive use with Keysight’s popular Nano Indenter G200, delivers high-precision data on a wide variety of materials. The Express Test option is compatible with all G200 indentation DCM II and XP heads and translation stages.

Methods enabled by Express Test are ideal for applications involving metals, glasses, ceramics, structural polymers, thin films, and low-k materials. With Keysight NanoSuite >6.2 software, users can automatically generate histograms and 3D mechanical-properties maps. Graphs and supporting data are easily exported to Microsoft Excel.

Express Excellence: Nothing Else Compares

The Nano Indenter G200 utilizes electromagnetic actuation to achieve unparalleled dynamic range in force and displacement. Keysight’s innovative Express Test option enhances the reputation of the G200 as the world’s most accurate, flexible, and user-friendly instrument for nanoscale mechanical testing.

Express Test allows the Nano Indenter G200 to be operated in controlled-force or controlled-displacement mode. Testing is simple, just “point” and “shoot”. Area-function calibration can be performed in minutes, Young’s modulus and hardness can be rapidly evaluated with robust statistics, and quantitative maps of mechanical properties can be generated in record time. Thermal drift is negligible thanks to Express Test’s unprecedented speed.

Express Elements: G200 Configurations

Express Test is compatible with all Keysight Nano Indenter G200 indentation heads and stages! Each element of the G200 has been optimized to facilitate ultrafast performance. Among the many benefits of the G200 design are convenient access to the entire sample tray, excellent sample positioning accuracy, easy viewing of the sample position and sample work area, and simplicity in sample height adjustment to speed throughput.

The standard G200 configuration uses a Keysight XP indentation head. To extend the range of load-displacement experimentation to the surface contact level, the G200 can be equipped with Keysight’s Dynamic Contact Module II (DCM II) indentation head.

The DCM II offers G200 users loading capability up to 30mN, easy tip exchange for quick removal and installation of application- specific tips, and a full 70 μm range of indenter travel. The DCM II also provides the ability to measure deformation over four orders of magnitude — from nanometers to tens of microns. Real-world testing shows that its noise levels are typically less than an angstrom, ensuring the best resolution of any indenter on the market today. The DCM II has the lowest noise floor of any instrument of its type.

The Nano Indenter G200 can be configured with either a standard stage or Keysight’s NanoVision option, which integrates a high-precision closed loop positioning system and image-analysis software. The NanoVision stage moves the sample quickly and accurately from one position to the next under the indenter with minimal change in elevation. Over its range of motion (100 μm x 100 μm) the NanoVision stage maintains planarity to within 10nm. Because of the superior flatness of stage travel, the indenter can hover just over the surface, thus minimizing surface-approach time.

Seamlessly orchestrating these complementary system components is NanoSuite Professional, a premium-performance software package designed by Keysight to give G200 users the ultimate combination of speed, flexibility, and ease of use.

Whether you work in an academic or an industrial setting, Keysight Express Test is ready to revolutionize your research today.

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