Asylum Research has installed the first Cypher AFM system in China, at the South China Normal University in Guangzhou.
Cypher, which is claimed to be the world's fastest and highest resolution AFM, was installed in the lab of Professor Xingsen Gao at the SCNU Institute for Advanced Materials by personnel from Asylum Research and Grapes Hangzhou Technology, Asylum's representative in China.
Professor Gao's group will use Cypher to investigate advanced piezoelectric, ferroelectric and multiferroic materials.
The team's research on multifunctional materials will take full advantage of Cypher's design, specifically fast scanning, high resolution and advanced PFM modes, such as Dual AC Resonance Tracking (DART) and Band Excitation (BE).
Asylum Research will be demonstrating the Cypher AFM system at the upcoming China NANO 2011 conference in Beijing from 7-9 September, on Booth C29.
