AFM Tips

Our AFM tips are micromachined, monolithic Silicon, exhibiting excellent uniformity and a sharp tip radius.

Our AppNano and Vistaprobes AFM tips have a pyramidal geometry, as shown in the photo and schematic to the right. Our specialty probes by Team Nanotec typically have a conical shape.

Our standard, uncoated tips have a consistent radius of less than 10 nm. The AppNano brand has the added benefit of a very high aspect ratio at the last 200 nm of the tip (better than 5:1).

If you wish to obtain detailed information about your tip's shape and morphology, we recommend the tip characterization devices by Aurora Nanodevices and the SPIP software Tip Characterization module.

SEM Micrograph of AppNano brand AFM tip.

Schematic showing commonly used terms to describe tip geometry.