Convince yourself just by watching demo videos taken with the new nanofilm_ultrabam:(To start a video, please click on the images below.)
nanofilm_ultrabam
Overall-focused images in real-time
Convince yourself just by watching demo videos taken with the new nanofilm_ultrabam:(To start a video, please click on the images below.)
Monolayer of DMPE during first-order phase transition, contrast in domains caused by long range orientation order
http://www.youtube.com/v/wXcj0znr4s0
DMPE 31
http://www.youtube.com/v/vdGU5TvTSAY
DMPE 52
http://www.youtube.com/v/-aIMr9MwpLY
DMPE 42
http://www.youtube.com/v/o8A01eUh8Uk
DMPE 13
Ethyl stearate monolayer at π<1mN/m, Field of view approx. 720µm
http://www.youtube.com/v/Aed01HyXkUw
ESt 7
http://www.youtube.com/v/9O4z2huLkpE
ESt 6
The new nanofilm_ultrabam provides overall-focused images in real-time! Brewster-Angle-Microscopes observe the sample under an angle and thus only one focused line is displayed. Until now, a so-called focus scanner has to be used to receive an overall focused image. The new generation of Brewster-Angle-Microscopes overcomes this problem. Due to an advanced optical setup the image displayed by the nanofilm_ultrabam is in focus through the entire field of view without use of a focus scanner. This is extremely advantageous for all floating monolayers and enables a researcher to observe his samples even in real-time! The lateral resolution of the instrument is 2µm with a field of view of approx. 720 x 400µm. It is designed for the air/water interface but will also work on popular glass substrates due to a variable angle-of-incidence ranging from 52° to 57°.
As a restriction, the nanofilm_ultrabam is designed as a pure Brewster-Angle-Microscope which cannot be upgraded to an Ellipsometer.
As a restriction, the nanofilm_ultrabam is designed as a pure Brewster-Angle-Microscope which cannot be upgraded to an Ellipsometer.
Applications
- Domains and order phenomena
- Transformation of monolayer into multilayered structures
- Photochemical reaction (e.g. photoisomerization)
- LB-films on solid structures
- Influences of various subphase compositions (counter-ions) on monolayer structures
- Polymers and other materials that cannot be detected by fluorescense microscopy
- Adsorption kinetics
- In-situ polymerization in monolayer
- Phase separation
- Quality and homogeneity of LB-films
nanofilm_ep3bam:Brewster Angle Microscope with focus scanner
nanofilm_ultrabam:Brewster Angle Microscope for overall focused images
nanofilm_lb_troughs:Langmuir-Blodgett trough
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