Key Launch from the Pioneers of BioAFM

JPK Instruments used MicroScience 2010 to launch their third generation, dedicated BioAFM system, the NanoWizard® 3 BioScience AFM.

The core of the new JPK NanoWizard® 3 BioScience system is HyperDrive™, a SuperResolution AFM fluid imaging technique. With extremely low tip-sample interactions, samples are never damaged. It is available with the NanoWizard® 3 AFM head and the new Vortis™ high bandwidth, low noise control electronics. The system is extremely stable to drift and has the ability to detect the smallest cantilever deflections enabling some of the most stunning images ever produced in a commercial system.

The NanoWizard® 3 BioScience system design provides the highest AFM performance in liquids and air, integrated with optical microscopy. It comes with outstanding physical and optical access to the sample from front and side, even when head and condenser are in place. The tip-scanning head equipped with a flexure scanner gives highest flexibility for a large variety of different samples.

The DirectOverlay™ software has set the standard for the way AFM and optical microscopy should be combined to provide complementary information from the sample. Additionally, techniques such as epi-fluorescence, confocal laser scanning microscopy, TIRF, FRET, FCS, FLIM, FRAP, STORM, PALM, STED and spinning disc, give insight about the behaviour or location of particular sample features. It is now possible to combine AFM

imaging AND force measurements with these optical methods on the same spot at the same time on a routine basis.