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Super Sharp Diamond-Like Carbon (DLC) tips with typical curvature radius 1nm grown on the probe series NSG10.

NSG10_DLC

TEM image of DLC tip.

Super sharp diamond-like carbon (DLC) tips* with typical curvature radius 1nm are extremely useful for obtaining high resolution on objects with sizes of several nanometers. DLC tips have very long lifetime due to the high material durability.

DLC tips can be grown on any standard probe series.

To guarantee 20nm working length of DLC tips TEM is used. 10% from total number of probes in the batch are selected for testing. At least 80% of those probes should have the only DLC tip which lengh is exceeded by 20nm others DLC tips on the same probe. In this case the whole batch is considered as passed the TEM test. On the surfaces with roughness bigger than 20nm double images are possible.

DLC tip specification:
Material diamond-like carbon
Curvature radius - 1-3nm.
Working length - >20nm

Probe Specification:
Chip size 3,6x1,6x0,4mm
Reflective side coating Au
Chip has one rectangular cantilever

* - DLC tips can be grown on any other probe series by request

SPM image of DNA deposited on HOPG is obtained by DLC tip.
DNA size (2-2.5nm) is nearly equal to the real size (~2nm)!
Standard probes provide DNA imaging with size about 10-15nm.

SPM image of linearized plasmid DNA deposited on the modified HOPG obtained by DLC tip on the Solver P47 BIO (NT-MDT Co.) by Dr.Dmitry Klinov, Institut of Bioorganic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Science.

* "Dmitry Klinov and Sergei Magonov, True molecular resolution in tapping-mode atomic force microscopy with high-resolution probes, Applied physics letters, 84 (14), (2004) 2697-2699."