SARFUS 3D-IMM: NEW EQUIPMENT FOR NANOMETRIC SAMPLE CHARACTERIZATION IN WATER

Nanolane is proud to announce the launch of its new equipment SARFUS 3D-IMM dedicated to the topographic characterization of nanometric samples in water.

Equipments for characterization in water are still rare, relatively complex to operate and do not offer real-time images of samples. SARFUS 3D-IMM is designed to match the needs of the engineering and research community, especially in the Life Science but also in Thin Film and Surface Treatment areas. Indeed, SARFUS 3D-IMM is dedicated to the observation of nano-objects in real-time and to the thickness measurements of ultra-thin films in water.
Like the other SARFUS products, SARFUS 3D-IMM is based on SEEC optical technique that uses specific nonreflecting surfaces for cross-polarized reflected light microscopy. These surfaces -the Surfs- are used instead of standard microscope slides and generate a contrast enhancement of about 2 orders of magnitude, extending the application fields of optical microscopy toward the nanoworld.
Thanks to the absence of scanning and its easiness of use, SARFUS 3D-IMM equipment opens new perspectives for the nano-characterization in aqueous media by allowing dynamic studies of nanometric structures and rapid quality control of samples. In addition, the equipment is proposed with a powerful 3D topographic software for complete characterization (layer thicknesses, section profiles, roughnesses...) of nanometric samples.
The main applications concerned by this innovation are:
•	Life Science
	Biological objets
	Vesicles
	Lipid bilayers
	Biochips
	Cell adhesion
	...

•	Thin films & Surface Treatment
	Polyelectrolytes
	Sensitive films (LCST)
	Nano-films
	Polymer patterns
	...

The main features of SARFUS 3D-IMM equipment are:
•	User friendly & Fast processing
•	Repeatability : 0.1nm (according to ISO standard 17025)
•	Z-sensibility limit: 0.2nm
•	Range of measurement: 1 to 60nm
•	Lateral resolution : 330nm
•	Live video acquisition
•	Time lapse (up to 15 image per second)
•	Non destructive, no labelling
•	Compatibility with fluorescence
Further information: www.nano-lane.com  or nano@eolane.com