9500 AFM

Keysight Technologies

9500 AFM

Data Sheet

System Overview

The Keysight Technologies, Inc. 9500 AFM seamlessly integrates revolutionary new software, a new high-bandwidth digital controller, and a state-of-the-art mechanical design to provide unrivaled scan rates and truly astonishing ease of use. In addition to completely redefining the user experience for atomic force microscopes, this intelligently conceived system delivers the superior performance and flexible functionality that scientists and engineers have come to expect from Keysight Technologies.

We are confident that users of the 9500 AFM will immediately be impressed by Keysight’s new NanoNavigator software, whose workflow-based graphical user interface (GUI) makes the system noticeably easy to use. The new software’s Auto Drive feature, for example, automatically and optimally sets all parameters within seconds. NanoNavigator also enables the optionally available Quick Scan, a new technology for ultrafast scanning up to 2 sec/frame (200 x 200 pixels). There’s even a handy mobile app to allow monitoring of the system via smart phone or tablet during AFM operation.

The Keysight 9500 system offers a large, closed-loop AFM scanner with atomic resolution, industry-leading environmental control, ultra-high-precision temperature control, and much more. A new high-bandwidth, FPGA-based digital controller ensures high-speed operating precision and eliminates the requirement for additional external control boxes.

The clever, compact mechanical design of the 9500 affords researchers quick and convenient access to their samples. More than a half-dozen of the most commonly used AFM imaging modes are supported by the system’s standard nose cone, which can easily be interchanged with specialized nose cones as needed, extending the 9500’s capabilities effortlessly.

Designed with scientific and industrial R&D users in mind, the Keysight 9500 is the ideal system for an expansive range of advanced AFM applications associated with materials science, life science, polymer science, electrical characterization, and electrochemistry.

For electrochemistry applications, NanoNavigator provides control of potentials and cyclic voltammetry. To facilitate the investigation of surface reactivity and interfacial processes, the new software supports Keysight’s powerful AFM-SECM (scanning electrochemical microscopy) technique.

For electrical characterization applications, the 9500 has Scanning Microwave Microscopy mode (SMM) and for materials applications, Quick Sense permits quantitative mapping of nanomechanical properties by acquiring topography, adhesion, stiffness & elasticity data simultaneously. For life sciences applications, TREC molecular recognition capabilities have been added.

New NanoNavigator Software

The 9500 system utilizes NanoNavigator, a revolutionary new imaging and analysis software package that draws upon the vast knowledge and expertise accumulated by Keysight over the course of two full decades spent creating leading-edge AFM instruments and supporting users in the field.

NanoNavigator greatly simplifies the complete control of all scanning parameters and provides the flexibility required for more complex experiments. The new software’s optionally available Quick Scan technology enables unprecedented AFM scan speeds — up to 2 sec/frame (200 x 200 pixels).

Even true novices will find it easy to operate the 9500 AFM thanks to NanoNavigator. After loading a cantilever, the user simply enters the cantilever type into the software and the Auto Drive feature does the rest, automatically and optimally setting all parameters, including I and P gains, within a matter of seconds.

If a particular experiment requires the use of non-default settings, NanoNavigator is still exceptionally helpful. AFM beginners and experts alike will appreciate the new software’s workflow-based GUI, as it guides users step-by-step through system setup and operation via intuitive and attractive visuals. For ultimate convenience, the NanoNavigator mobile app for smart phones and tablets allows remote monitoring of AFM experiments while they are being performed by the 9500.

NanoNavigator software supports volume spectroscopy and FlexGrid spectroscopy, as well as math plug-ins to facilitate quantitative analysis. Additional and extensive interactive post-processing capabilities are provided by Keysight’s easy-to-use Pico Image, an imaging and analysis software package built into NanoNavigator. Pico Image provides all of the features and functions required to build a surface analysis report on multi-layer measurement data.