Dr.Muralidhar K. Ghantasala


Forces in the mN range

Have a look at out home page ( address see below).
Since AFM's can hardly be applied to measure forces in
the micronewton range, we have developed our own
testers.
We use fiber optical intensity sensors in combination with
parallel leaf springs made of glass. Since we can calibrate
the leaf spring precisely, we can measure forces from mN
down to nN with the same machine.

Regards,

 Matt


Dr. Matthias Scherge
Microtribology Group
Technische Universitaet Ilmenau
PF 100565
D-98684 Ilmenau
Tel +49 3677 693782
Fax +49 3677 693771
http://www.physik.tu-ilmenau.de/tribo/scherge.html