Exact Surface Measurement

With its LSM 5 Exciter laser scanning microscope, Carl Zeiss MicroImaging is offering users in materials research and quality analysis a microscope system that also analyses relatively soft materials such as polymers in a non-contact procedure and with high measuring accuracy and resolution. The microscope increases speed, reliability and convenience of material analysis. Special software functions allow the quantitative surface examination and analysis of materials. With the non-contact confocal technique, 2D and 3D topographies can be visualised and measured, roughness and waviness determined, and porosity and volume content measured with a high degree of quality and reliability. The possibility of working both in reflected and fluorescent light expands the flexibility of analytical techniques.