Nanoindenteur sous vide jusqu’à 1000°C

NanoTest Xtreme de Micro Materials

Le nanoindenteur NanoText Xtreme est le premier nanoindenteur sous vide disponible dans le commerce avec une plage de température unique, destiné aux études à la pointe de la recherche en nanoindentation à haute température pour des applications très exigeantes notamment lorsque la suppression de l'oxydation de l'échantillon et de l’indenteur est cruciale.

Caractéristiques
  • Solution clef-en-main sous vide pour la nanoindentation à très hautes températures.
  • Large gamme de charge de 10 µN à 500 mN
  • Nombreuses techniques de tests en supplément des tests classiques de nanoindentation
  • Large gamme de températures de -40 °C à 1000 °C
  • Large choix de conditions environnementales

Plus d'informations

The NanoTest Xtreme ist the result of almost a decade of research and collaboration with existing users and constant product development.

This unique system is currently the only commercially available vacuum nanoindenter in the temperature range from -40 °C up to 1000 °C and higher. Similiar to the NanoTest Vantage, the system is a universal platform for different methods to characterize the mechanical properties of surfaces and thin films, as well as testing the microstructural material properties. The modularity of the system allows both the combination of all the measurement modules and customizing the system to specific applications.

The base frame made of aluminium together with new, high-resolution electronics, provides even more precise measurements with highest load and displacement resolutions at lowest drift rates. The system comes with all required vacuum accessories (vacuum chamber, turbo pump, feedthrougs, etcs.) and is turn-key ready installed into the vacuum chamber.

The special pendulum design provides full modularity and excellent performance, both fully ISO 14577 and ASTM 2546 compliant. The nanoindenter NanoTest has the lowest drift rate of all instruments in the market, both at room and elevated temperature. This allows the application of a wide range of loading rates during the measurements. Besides the well known nanoindentation-technique, also other tests such as scratch and wear tests as well as nano-impact and fatigue for high strain rate testing are available options and expand the accessible experiment window to simulate the contact mechanics in the final application.

Caractéristiques techniques

Loading range:

300 mN – 30 N Micro-Loadinghead

Measurement Options:

  • Nanoindentation / Nanohardness testing
  • Microindentation / Microhardness testing
  • Nano- Scratch tests with simultaneous friction measurement
  • Nano-Impact measurements
  • Nano-Fretting

Environmental Options:

  • High Temperature to 1000 °C
  • Cold Temperature to -40 °C
  • Vacuumlevel of 10-5 mBar
  • Possibility of backfilling with inert and reaction gas
  • Temperature options include independent tip and sample heating to ensure isothermal contact
  • Most of the measurement options are compatible with the environmental options

Imaging Options:

  • High temperature optics
  • SPM – Imaging (compatible with Temperature options)

Applications

Nanoindentation / Nanohardness testing The nanoindenter NanoTest allows for fast, highly accurate Nanoindentation experiments to obtain material properties such as hardness, modulus, creep and more. Typical applications which were the reason for the invention of the systems 30 years ago is the measurement of mechanical properties of thin coatings. The new technology and the highly precise system design also allows for the analysis of multiphase-materials as well as probing the microstructure of materials.
  • Obtaining hardness & modulus with Nanoindentation according to ISO standards by using the Oliver-Pharr method
  • 3D mapping of mechanical properties to display various phases/sample homogeneity
  • Load-Partial-Unload Nanoindentation for depth profiling of hardness and modulus
Nano-scratch and wear Nano-scratch and wear tests provide you with the capability to perform both adhesion and friction tests over the full loading range. This option is also compatible with the elevated temperature capability.
Nano-impact and fatigue The nano-impact is a patented method by Micro Materials and allows for high strain rate testing, expanding the capability window that is accessible with standard nanoindentation tests. This method allows for analysis of "dynamic nanohardness" and gives access to the energies absorbed by the material due to the impact. Repetitive impact testing showed great correlations and use for cutting tool coatings. This option is also compatible with the elevated temperature capability.
High temperature testing

Main motivation for the development of this novella vacuum-nanoindenter NanoTest Xtreme was the access to even higher temperatures.

For many materials, especially with regards to high temperature nanohardness testing, an inert gas atmosphere is simply not enough to surpress oxidation rates sufficiently. Hence it was obvious, to try integrating the nanohardness tester NanoTest into a vacuum chamber.

The current temperature range covers -40 °C up to 1000 °C and beyond and allows material testing in a completely unique temperature range for today’s nanohardness testers. In addition, the upper boundary will be pushed towards 1000 °C and further within the near future.
The pantented control method, as well as the necessary separate Indentertip and sample heating continue to feature the high temperature option.

Some typical applications for high temperature nanohardness testing are:

  • Optimization of wear for cutting tool coatings
  • Investigation of materials for nuclear applications: e.g. plasma-wall-interaction
  • Determination of mechanical properties of thermal barrier coatings
  • Characterization of materials and metals at high temperatures

Téléchargements

NanoTest Xtreme
High-temperature module
Nano fretting module
Nano impact and fatique module
Nano scratch and wear module
Multi-scale mechanical property mapping
HS acoustic emission module
NanoTest integrated modelling modules
NanoTriboTest
Nanomechanical testing to 1000 °C

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The NanoTest Xtreme for nanoindentation and microindentation under vacuum conditions

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