Easily pick up and postion smallest particles

Anyone involved in microscope work is aware of the difficulties caused by the lack of efficient and precise tools to pick up samples, securely hold them until finally exactly position the samples at the desired location.

The Micro TouchPick Pen is ideal for the delicate maneuvering of your specimens.

The unique technique makes the Micro TouchPick pen effective in capturing smaller–sized, fragile particles and samples of all sorts, including biological, archaeological and mineralogical samples.

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about how to use the Micro TouchPick Pen!

Features

Benefits

• Accurate sample retrieving and positioning

• Two different sized adhesive tips (0.62 mm and 0.17mm)
   
• Ergonomic pen design
   
• Excellent tip visibility

• Enduring adhesive strengths

• Easy to use for everybody

• Excellent control of sample handling
   
• Ideal for fragile and statically charged samples
   
• Reduced risk of sample damage

• No detectable residue left on sample
   
• Long-term usability

Easily manipulate your samples or extract smallest particles for further examination, while monitoring your action on the attached monitor

The EZ-Pick II has the form of a pen with a mounting device to attach sampling probes like needles or knifes at the front end.

Inside the pen there are an ultra-mini high performance CCD and a specially designed optical lens built in.

While manipulating your samples or extracting smallest particles for further examination, your sample prep operations are visualized on the attached 7” LCD Monitor.

According to your specific application you can insert the appropriate type of sample probe onto the head of the stylus.

Features

Benefits

• Ergonomic Stylus design
   
• Ultra mini high performance CCD
   
• Specially designed optical lens
   
• 7” TFT-LCD monitor
   
• Exchangeable sample prep probes
   
• Head Mount Display for on-site measurement available

• Easy to use at any location
   
• Easy on-site sample taking and manipulating
   
• Versatility due to various exchangeable sample prep probes
   
• Economic price
   

Interchangeable Tools

Needles

Included as standard with the EZ-Pick II is a set of electrically polished Tungsten Sampling Needles:
1" x 0.5 mm each, with point diameters of 1, 2.5, and 5 microns to pick up/extract microparticles from your sample

Knives

The Sampling Knives - available with a 0° blade or a 15°blade - are suitable for cutting and sectioning your sample.
Included as standard with the EZ-Pick II is the Knife Holder with 10 knifes with a 0° cutting blade.

Tweezers

Tweezer probes are available as an option. These probes can be
used to pick up small samples such as fibers, fabric, film, and paper, to eliminate sample contamination, etc.

a) Regular Curved Tip Tweezers
b) Reverse Action Tweezers with Curved Tips

Diamond Plane

The Diamond Plane is available as an option. This probe incorporates a synthetic single crystal diamond tip.
It is ideal for scraping and shaving off sections of the sample surface, e.g. impurities, for further analysis.

The EZ-Pick Micromanipulator is a versatile and easy-to-use device that converts your microscope from an observational instrument into a practical sample preparation tool

Manual handling of micro samples is often too unsteady while use of joystick controlled micromanipulators can be complex and expensive.

The EZ-Pick-tool is ideal for any application where demanding micromanipulation is needed and has a justifiable price even for minor applications.

4 Steps To Effective Micromanipulation:

1. Special assembly to attach and fix the required sampling tool (needle, knife, diamond scrabbler,..) to the manipulator.
    
2. The entire tool is mounted directly on the objective of your microscope.
    
3. Tip of sampling tool and the sample specimen on the stage are aligned and brought into focus.
    
4. By using the X-Y-Z movement of the microscope stage the sample can be manipulated, cut, sectioned, etc.

Features

Benefits

• Special assembly to attach and fix the required sampling tool to the manipulator
   
• Variety of exchangeable sampling tool (needles, knifes, diamond scrabbler)
   
• Fits to most optical microscopes (incl. IR, Raman, Fluorescence) and also with Stereo Microscopes. (A working objective distance of at least 5 mm and an x-y-z microscope stage are required)

• Easy to install and use
   
• Precisely manipulate your specimens directly under the microscope
   
• High accuracy manipulation of microscopic specimens
   
• Precise and predictable control of direction and force
   
• Economic price

Interchangeable Sampling Tools

Needles

Included as standard with the EZ-Pick II is a set of electrically polished Tungsten Sampling Needles:
1" x 0.5 mm each, with point diameters of 1, 2.5, and 5 microns to pick up/extract microparticles from your sample

Sampling Knife

The Sampling Knives- with a 0° blade or a 15°blade - are suitable for cutting and sectioning your sample and are available as an option.
The knife holder and blade can been inserted into the EZ-Pick tool.

The Diamond Plane

The Diamond Plane is available as an option.
This probe incorporates a synthetic single crystal diamond tip.
It mounts directly in the EZ-Pick tool and is used to scrape and shave off sections of the sample surface, e.g. impurities, for further analysis.
 

Easily shave off surfaces into thin samples for microanalysis

Proper sample preparation tools are a requirement for any microscopy lab. This is especially true for those performing FT-IR analysis where the sample must be between 5 and 20 microns in order to provide the desired transmission.

The Mini-Plane enables you to shave off the surface of a material such as a polymer and cut a controlled and consistent sized slice of uniform thickness, optimized for measurement.
 

Features

Benefits

• Adjustable blade depth & cutting angle
   
• Available with choice of blades:
  Single Crystal Diamond (cutting width 0,7 mm)
  or
  Carbide Steel Blade (cutting width 1,5 mm)
   
• Ergonomic wooden grip
   
• Patented design

• Excellent control and reproducibility of sample thickness
   
• Precise depth control
   
• Reduced mechanical damage to specimen
   
• Allows you to produce sections of various thickness with the same knife
   
• Easy to clean

The Micro-Vice Holder is designed to hold individually shaped samples for microscope study

Features

Benefits

• Holds round and unevenly shaped samples
   
• Stretches fibers, polymer films, hairs by user defined increments
   
• Permits tilting of oblique samles
   
• Accommodation of samples up to 40 mm in diameter
   
• Available in a number of different versions to accommodate a broad range of microscopes

• Facilitates positioning of samples for examination with icroscopes, Stereoscopes, and IR-Microscopes
   
• Supports FTIR-Microanalysis in pharmaceutical research and polymer analytics
   
• Ideal for mineralogical and gemological studies with Stereo Microscopes
   
• Facilitates forensic analysis of hair and fibers

With this compression cell you can easily flatten and thin materials to an ideal thickness for transmission analysis

The sample is simply compressed between the diamond windows by turning thumb screws until the sample is thin enough for the beam of the spectrophotometer to penetrate.

The Diamond Cell simplifies sample preparation of samples, which are difficult to manage by other techniques:
Excellent for analyzing hard materials such as minerals, rubbers, plastics, polymers and also pharmaceuticals.
They can be compressed, crushed and flattened to a uniform thickness for IR measurements.

The total cell thickness of 9.5 mm provides smallest working distance for use with microscopes.
 

Features

Benefits

• Large clear aperture (1.6 mm or 2.0 mm)
   
• Universal use with FTIR-Spectrometers & FTIR –Microscopes
   
• Two type IIa single crystal synthetic diamonds
   
• Standard 2”x3” back plate fits all spectrometers
   
• To use without beam condenser

• Simplified sample preparation
   
• Multifunctional use with spectrometer and/or with IR-Microscope
   
• Minimal interfering absorption bands
   
• Maximum throughput to the detector without detection saturation
   
• Easy to assemble and clean

Diamond Windows

Standard materials such as KBr and BaF2 have long been used as windows for spectroscopic applications. These materials, however, present a number of problems. For example, they can be easily scratched and are difficult to clean.

Diamond windows do not have these problems. They are extremely hard and therefore almost impossible to scratch or damage, and they are easily cleaned.
The Diamond Windows are an ideal tool for your microscope measurements and cover wide spectral range from UV to FTIR.

Features

Benefits

• Standard sized 1" x 3" slide mount
   
• Highest Quality Synthetic Diamonds Type II
• Excellent optical and mechanical properties
   
• Highly desirable crystalline characteristics
   
• Low concentrations of nitrogen impurities

• Long durability
   
• No diamond impurities interfere with sample measurements
   
• No fracture strength
   
• Best throughput
   
• No solvent washing necessary
   
• Uniform hardness

Micro Magnetic Sample Holder

Theh Micro Magnetic Sample Holder is a multipurpose sampling slide to hold various types of probes for microanalysis.

It handles 13-mm pellets and Diamond windows, films and fibers.
The holder uses magnetic strips to secure the sample to the back plate.

 Features

 Benefits

• Standard sized 1" x 3" slide mount
   
• Magentic Covers secure samples firmly onto the back plate
   
• Cover to holds fibers and films
   
• Various sized openings for pellets, windows, mirrors etc.
   
• Micro graticule cover included

• Multiple usability with various kinds of samples
   
• Easy to use
   
• Easy & secure positioning of a large variety of sample types

1" x 3" sized sampling slide for a wide variety of samples.

It features three holes each having two notches.
Tips of tweezers fit perfectly in the notches, so that windows, mirrors, etc can be easily placed in or taken out.

 Features

 Benefits

• Standard sized 1" x 3" sampling slide
   
• Available in Aluminium or Stainless Steel
   
• 2 holes w/ 1.6mm depth for windows/mirrors of 2mm thinckness
   
• 1 hole w/ 0.6mm depth for windows/mirrors of 1mm thinckness
   
• Stainless Steel Slide comes with 1 ring shaped and 2 rectangular Neodymium magnet

• Multiple usability with various kinds of samples
   
• Easy to use
   
• Accurate & secure positioning of a large variety of sample types

LC-IR Holder

These LC-IR Sample Holders offers you perfect conditions for optimal micro-reflection spectroscopy of multiple samples on the same slide.

It is ideal for reflection-absorption measurements and grazing angle measurements

 Features

 Benefits

• Standard sized 1" x 3" golden plate with 14 sample wells
   
• 7 x 4.0 mm diameter wells
   
• 7 x 2.5 mm diameter wells

• All samples on one slide
   
• To use for reflection-absorption measurements
   
• To use for grazing angle measurements