Nanoscale Imaging Has Never Been Easier

Collect nanoscale topography data on your benchtop in three clicks with the nGauge AFM.

ICSPI has integrated all of the components of a traditional AFM onto a single 1 mm x 1 mm chip to create the world’s first single-chip AFM. That means that 250 AFMs can fit on the face of a penny.

The nGauge AFM uses micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) to control the X, Y and Z position of the tip. This means that no alignment of lasers is required.

The nGauge is the smallest AFM in the world. Because the entire unit weighs less than 500 grams, the nGauge rejects building vibrations, so no vibration isolation table is needed, which makes the nGauge a true benchtop AFM.

 

What can I use AFM for?

AFM provides topographical data of a surface. That means that you can look at the shape and size of individual features, such as the pits on a DVD, or look at the particle density, such as the number of nanoparticles in an area.

The nGauge AFM can be used to investigate surfaces where the features are up to 10 µm tall. It’s tricky to pinpoint a lower limit, but the RMS noise in the vertical (z) direction of the nGauge is 1 nanometre (nm). So, depending on your requirements, features as small as 5–10 nm can be imaged with the nGauge with acceptable accuracy.

To put what a nanometer is into perspective, a quarter (25-cent coin) is about 2 cm wide. An E. coli bacterium cell is 2 µm wide (10,000× smaller than a quarter). And the diameter of a DNA helix is 2 nm (1,000× smaller than a bacterium).

The DT Series of analytical and high precision balances from LabPRO delivers the accuracy and performance required in a host of laboratory, industrial and educational applications. With the right blend of performance and features, LabPRO DT Series high precision balances offers high performance yet economical value for all your weighing needs.

The high precision micropipette series are essential to those who relies on accuracy, especially users in the fields of molecular biology, microbiology, immunology, cell culture, analytical chemistry, biochemistry, and genetics. Its nine volume range covers the complete pipetting range from 0.2 μl to 100 μl to offer its user a wider selection to find the most suitable model for any application.

LabPRO products are specially designed to offer high performance with Swiss accuracy yet with economical value. The new LabPRO high precision micropipette is the only mechanical pipette that offers both lock/unlock mechanism and tip ejection system in one. They are essential to users who relies highly on accuracy, especially those in the fields of molecular biology, microbiology, immunology, cell culture, analytical chemistry, biochemistry, and genetics.

LabPRO Tips are designed, developed, and manufactured in order to fit LabPro pipettes perfectly but also all commercially available pipettes. They ensure optimal performance of your pipettes across the full volume range and are perfectly fit for manual or electronic, single or multichannel.

The LabVantage Enterprise platform is designed to scale from small single-site deployments all the way up to a global enterprise. Complex organizations tackling a large volume of data and a wide variety of work, often across multiple labs in multiple geographies and languages, can rely on the LabVantage Enterprise solution hosted from a single data center. There is no need for costly Citrix farms or complex distributed systems.

LabVantage also goes beyond a traditional LIMS to incorporate functionality found in multiple lab systems – such as ELN and LES.

LabVantage Enterprise

• Rich in capabilities
• Adapts to evolving business requirements
• Supports all industries
• Supports all lab types
• Scales to support thousands of users

For business leaders and lab managers, LabVantage Enterprise offers dashboard views, functionality, and systems integration that generate insights for decision making, workforce planning, and other operational functions.

IT chooses LabVantage Enterprise because of its modern technology, scalability, cloud-hosted or on-premise options, ability to integrate with other business systems, and support for thousands of multi-site users.

Scientists and technicians appreciate the roles-based access to data from any device (including tablets), and the ease of use. It covers a wide range of capabilities, from sample lifecycle management to lab execution, data retrieval, security and auditing, and more.

Find out why hundreds of organizations use LabVantage Enterprise to enhance the productivity and efficiency of their labs.

It’s the ideal solution for smaller Quality Control or Contract/Analytical Testing labs that have, or want, pre-determined, standard processes to meet high quality and accreditation requirements. Right-sized and ready for deployment, LabVantage Express means you don’t have to make any post-implementation configurations.

It borrows heavily from LabVantage Enterprise, but peels back the functionality larger organizations need to address their complexity, leaving behind a simplified, less distracting LIMS platform. It’s a fully functional LIMS that significantly reduces implementation time. Perfect for those smaller labs that are ready to leave paper and spreadsheets behind in favor of standard processes.

Pre-Packaged Solutions for Industry

In nearly four decades of serving customers across many industries, LabVantage has learned what it takes to deliver the functionality and workflows those customers need, and want. But instead of continuing costly, risk-prone customizations, we’ve packaged that knowledge into industry-specific versions of LabVantage LIMS to speed deployment, without sacrificing functionality.

We currently offer packaged solutions pre-configured for these industries:

• Pharmaceutical
• Food & Beverage
• Oil & Gas
• Biobanking
• Diagnostics
• Quality (non-Pharma)

The LUMiFlector® is a powerful measuring instrument for product parameter determination & monitoring. The innovative patented MRS-Technology® is the core of the instrument. It quantifies parameters of manifold products – no sample preparation, no chemicals.

The At-line instrument is designed for process monitoring or quality control on a production site or in a laboratory. With its small footprint it can be easily placed beside the production line or in a QA/QC laboratory. The LUMiFlector® Lab is consumable free: no chemicals, no additional waste, no additional costs.

Application fields include food, feed, pharmaceutical, biotechnology products and medical nutrition and beyond.

The optical interface is easily accessible and easy to clean, with just water and soap. The instrument comes with a self-explaining user-friendly interface only. A short training of the operator is sufficient, no need for complicated or time-consuming training. With just approximately 20 seconds per measurement, the LUMiFlector® saves your valuable time. Easy cleaning, handling, measurement, installation & operation guaranteed.

The LUMiFrac is an innovative adhesion analyser, which employs centrifugal forces to determine temperature-controlled tensile as well as shear strength.

It employs centrifugal forces to stress multiple samples at once. It provides adhesive and tensile strength as well as shear strength as an absolute physical quantity in N/mm² (MPa).

The LUMiFrac accomplishes this by directly applying an incrementally increasing centrifugal force to the specimen being tested. It determines with high resolution the RPM at the moment of fracturing (employing Centrifugal Adhesion Testing Technology).

All data is transmitted to the well-known and popular operating software SEPView, which automatically calculates and displays the critical force/strength of failure in real time. Furthermore, it allows to analyze, compare & calculate statistics and combine results for up to tens of samples. Related data, as figures of fracture pattern, may be taken into account as well.

The LUMiFuge is an analytical centrifuge that measures instantaneously the extinction of transmitted light across the full length of your sample using the STEP-Technology. It is the only instrument in the world that enables you to perform physically accelerated, direct and efficient stability testing and ranking of your formulations.

It features an advanced optical system enabling multi-sample analysis at user defined speeds, light intensities and temperatures. The optical blocks consist of high-powered special light sources of different wavelengths.

The parallel light illuminates the whole sample from top to bottom. Even the smallest changes across the entire sample height are detected by a sensor featuring high optical and spatial resolution. Immediate data collection ensures the ability to measure everything that occurs in your sample; no matter how simple or complex. There is no need to dilute or to know any material constants; just input your samples and you have your results.

By looking at the fingerprint patterns of the whole sample, you can classify and understand the causes of instability, e. g. creaming, sedimentation or flocculation, as well as measure and rank stability.

Use this knowledge to develop new formulations and optimize current ones easily.