Specific styles will be sampled at introductory prices to
	qualified companies and researchers. Contact nanotool@gennano.com , nanotool™ V
	is protected by trademark, copyright and patent applications all rights are reserved to
	General Nanotechnology LLC 2002.


	The basic nanotool™ V	series consists of a Digital Instruments* footprint MEMS
	cantilever platform capable of many new functions and features. These features include
	the ladder like structure down the middle of the part. The ladder is a thermal force
	generator and drives the two long arms which go up the sides of the part to clamp the tip
	platform and immobilize or provide higher spring constant to the mechanical action of
	the tip and primary cantilever. Additionally, the arms themselves	may be covered by
	special silicon covers to form sealed continuous channels (see below bottom row right).
	These channels are fed from two large cavities under the main body by gas, vacuum or
	fluid. Furthermore a series of secondary cantilevers as can be seen just underneath the tip
	assembly (on the right upper row below) provide precise spring constant change as the
	primary cantilever is moved back and into them a micron or more. Many other new
	features are incorporated into the design and may be announced in the coming year as
	they reach production readiness.





  

  





	*Digital Instruments is a trade name of Veeco 

				The back of the nanotool™ V series reveals the Dual
			Fluid or Gas chambers feeding	the upper channel arms arranged
			around the tip platform. In this example the part has relatively
			weak secondary cantilever arms arranged just behind the tip
			platform to provide increased spring tension for conductive
			probing of subject materials.
			

				Nanotool™ V series are also available without any rear
			obstructions, beams or secondary cantilevers but in which the
			action of the clamping channel arms serves by design to make the
			appropriate spring constant change in the tip platform behavior.
			Inquire at GN to see if the special needs	of your application can be
			supported by the nanotool™ Series of active cantilevers!




				The nanotool™ Vseries includes specialty primary
			cantilevers such as the Kelvin Probe cantilever below	designed to
			operate in a SXM class high performance AFM with a conductive
			nanomachining capable tip in full support of GN's own AFM
			Guided Nanomachining. Note that this part is also an example of a
			secondary beam Z stop. The continuous 450 micron thick bar or
			beam which extends behind the cantilever and exactly 1.5 microns
			below the tip acts to provide ultimate rigidity for nanomachining
			operations in obdurate material such as Titanium Nitride
			and Diamond.




    

    

	Nanotool™ V Conductive or Standard Diamond tips (as	below) meet or exceed the
	highest standards for tip sharpness and durability in	research and industry!