Applications

Automotive - Mechanics

Semiconductors

• Twist evaluation
• Bearings (Gothic Arch)
• Sealing leakage
• Car body paint
• Transmission, gear wheels
• EBT steel sheets

• BGA, Flipchips
• Wafer stress
• Critical dimensions
• IC package warpage
• CMP defects
• Solar cells
• LED, Lighting

Optics - Data storage

Material science

• Micro-lens arrays
• Magnetic heads
• Fiber optic connectors
• Polishing marks
• Micro-Fresnel lenses

• Force spectroscopy
• Indentation
• Adhesion
• Corrosion (4D Series)
• Structured surfaces
• Contamination
• Crystals

Paper - Textile

Medical - Cosmetics

• Coatings
• Ink deposition
• Offset, printing rolls
• Calendering
• Raised print
• Watermarks
• Counterfeiting

• Hip joint prostheses
• anti-wrinkle cream tests
• Healing of wounds
• Skin ageing
• Teeth wear
• Stents

Micromechanics

Nanotechnologies - SPM

• MEMS
• Flatness of parts
• Automatic partition
• Microcontour
• Microfluidics
• Spiral springs

• Nanowalls, Nanodots
• Tip deconvolution
• Protein unfolding

Plastics - Leather

Miscellaneous

• Grained plastics
• Dashboard moulds
• Polymerization
• Biodegradation
• Conductive polymers
• Thermoforming

• Forensics