| Applications |
We offer the applications area of our website as a
means for you to obtain further information on how our
instrumentation may be used.
A Special Notice for our
Customers
We invite you to contact a member of our Application
Engineering staff with any questions requiring application
support. Simply email us at nanoapplications@mts.com
and we will assign an Application Engineer to your question.
Emailing us at this address will help ensure a timely
response to your question.
We welcome you to browse our publications index, which
contains abstracts of journal articles that were produced
through the use of our instrumentation. We also invite you to
download application notes that describe experiments
performed with our instrumentation and the subsequent
results.
Publications Index
We are working hard to collate our recent publications for
your perusal. Please check back with this section in the
coming weeks.
Application
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Actuation & Sensing
At its essence, instrumented indentation testing involves
applying a known force to the surface of a test sample and
measuring the resulting penetration into that...
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& Sensing
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Data Acquisition & Control
TestWorks®, the software platform for all NANO Indenter
systems, offers real-time experimental control that is
unparalleled in the industry. This application note
briefly...
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Data Acquisition & Control
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Dynamic Indentation
Dynamic indentation is the process of superimposing a small
sinusoidal oscillation on the primary indentation loading
signal and analyzing the response by means of...
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Indentation
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MEMs Testing
Last year, a customer approached us with a need to test a
specific type of micro-electro-mechanical (MEM) structure.
This application note briefly describes the...
MEMs Testing
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Measurement of Spider Silks
Nano-scale characterization of biological materials continues
to be a challenge in the fields of mechanics and material
testing. One interesting example is the...
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Measurement of Spider Silks
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Using Virtual Indenter
Finite element analysis (FEA) is a very useful modeling tool
for indentation experiments because the rather complicated
interaction between indenter...
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Using Virtual Indenter
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addendum
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Determine Fracture Toughness
With the addition of NANO Vision™, a quantitative
imaging package, the fracture toughness of thin films and
small volumes can accurately be determined without...
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Determine Fracture Toughness
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Nanoindentation of a Multiphase
Composite
In the case of multiphase composites, mechanical properties
of each phase will affect the overall performance of the
material, placing importance on the...
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Nanoindentation of a Multiphase Composite
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Red Blood Cells
MTS Nano Instruments has been investigating the properties of
biological samples like wood cells, spider silk, human skin,
and hair, for a long time...
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Red Blood Cells
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