Conductive Contact Mode

Product Description

NaDiaProbes are all-diamond probes for advanced AFM-based research. These probes are not diamond coated or diamond-like carbon. In NaDiaProbes both the cantilever and probe tip are made of UNCD® (Ultrananocrystalline Diamond) a patented diamond thin-film made to a monolithic structure.  Some Unique UNCD material properties are:

• Mechanical Properties: Equivalent to natural diamond in hardness, Young’s modulus, fracture toughness and strength.
• Tribological Properties: Smooth UNCD exhibits friction coefficients as low as 0.03 in air.
• Transport Properties: Some of UNCD films exhibit some of the highest conductivity reported for a phase-pure diamond film and are more conductive than any doped crystalline diamond film or diamond-like carbon film.
• Electron Field Emission Properties: UNCD films consistently exhibit very low threshold fields for field electron emission. Emission currents as high as 100 µA from a single UNCD-coated silicon micro-tip have been observed. Emission currents as high as 1 mA have been achieved from conformally-coated arrays of silicon microtips.

NaDiaProbes have been used for different type of applications ranging from imaging to nanoindentation.  NadiaProbes are designed to fit most commercial AFM instruments.