Tuesday, July 12, 2016
A Waterloo company has created the world's first microscopic atomic force microscope (AFM) and has big plans for the device.
"These instruments are normally really big, like, they would fill up a tabletop," said Duncan Strathearn, co-founder of nGauge. "They cost upwards of $500,000, you pretty much need a PhD to operate them because they're kind of complex."
The microscopic microscope was created by Neil Sarkar, who started Integrated Circuit Scanning Probe Instruments (ICSPI) while doing his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo with the goal of taking nGauge to market.
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