Nanoindentation

Nanoindenter XP (MTS)

Contact: Sahar Javedani

Important Features

• Displacement resolution: <0.02 nm
• Maximum indentation depth: 500 µm
• Load application: Coil/magnet assembly
• Displacement measurement: Capacitance gauge
• Maximum load: 500 mN (50.8 gm)
• Load resolution: 50 nN (5.1 µgm)
• Contact force: <1µN
• Choice of spherical (1.4 µm, 5 µm, 17 µm, 20 µm, and 100 µm radius), Berkovich and cube-corner diamond indenter tips, scratch tip
• Programmable and fully automated indentation modes allowing testing along preselected grid or at preferred sites on the sample
• Nano CSM module allows continuous stiffness measurements
• Nano Suite 5 testing software for simple experimental control and complete data analysis including hardness and modulus determination