Custom Systems

The scientists and engineers at Nanomechanics have been building standard and customized indentation and tensile systems for over 20 years.  While our core competencies are in precision load control, precision displacement measurement and software for instrument control, we have encountered many unique applications and challenges over the years.

Our experience in designing indentation and tensile systems enables us to bring various technologies to bear on adapting existing systems for your application.

From simple methods to complex system integration, customized sample mounting to instrument re-purposing, our staff will work with you to understand your technical challenges and craft a solution to help you advance your research, development, or quality goals.

Here are just a few of the many customizations our staff has performed:

• Temperature & humidity environment for tensile applications
• Custom wafer mounting hardware for nanoindenters
• Tilt stages for adjusting sample surfaces orthogonal to the indenter tip axis 
• Hybrid AFM/nanoindenters
• Liquid bath sample mounting hardware for nanoindenters
• Electrical probing systems
• Electrical contact tips
• Acoustic emissions sensing indenter
• Medical implant simulation and training tools
• Wire Despooling Force measurement device
• High-temperature indentation chambers