Scanning Microwave Impedance Microscopy (sMIM)
This new AFM mode, developed by PrimeNano, measures the electrical properties of materials at length scales from 10’s of nanometers to microns. sMIM modules produce high quality images of local electrical properties with better than 50 nm resolution.The core of our technical approach is to utilize microwave reflections from a nm scale region of the sample directly under the sMIM probe.
Sensitivity to metals, semiconductors and insulators including dielectrics
Direct measure conductivity σ & ε permittivity at the Nano-Scale
Linear relationship to electrical properties
Quantitative doping concentration mapping
Nano-Scale C-V spectra
Sub-surface sensing capability

Applications
Micro-electronics
Nano-materials
Doping profiles
Biomedical
Green Energy
Photonic materials and devices