美国Asylum Research
Asylum Research公司成立于1999年，由三位原先在DI（Digital Instruments）工作的科学家创建，DI在1998年被Veeco收购，Asylum Research名字的意思为寻求避难所(Asylum)。AR公司的目标是致力于纳米科学研究，它只生产一种原子力显微镜，公司由最初的3个人发展到现在的60余人。AR公司在美国、欧洲、日本及台湾有较多用户（包括美国佐治亚理工和北大工学院的王中林教授），目前它正在拓宽中国的市场。

美国Asylum Research公司是一家专门从事原子力显微镜技术的公司，向广大用户提供自行设计和制造的世界先进的精密测量仪器和工艺设备，并提供广泛的客户服务和技术支持。公司的工艺设备主要用于纳米范围的设备制造，拓宽了信息时代的技术和产品的广阔领域；测量仪器用来进行纳米范围的精密测量，为先进的科学研究和纳米技术提供重要的科技支持。公司致力于协助全球用户开拓新技术、提供使用经验和技术支持，为了确保技术产品上的世界领先地位和技术进步，公司不断开发新产品并为客户提供长期的服务。

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Asylum Research is the technology leader for atomic force and scanning probe microscopy (AFM/SPM) for both materials and bioscience applications. Founded in 1999, we are a company dedicated to innovative instrumentation for nanoscience and nanotechnology, with over 250 years combined AFM/SPM experience from our scientists, engineers and software developers. Our instruments are used for a variety of nanoscience applications in material science, physics, polymers, chemistry, biomaterials, and bioscience, including single molecule mechanical experiments on DNA, protein unfolding and polymer elasticity, as well as force measurements for biomaterials, chemical sensing, polymers, colloidal forces, adhesion, and more. Asylum’s product line offers imaging and measurement capabilities for a wide range of samples, including advanced techniques such as electrical characterization (CAFM, KFM, EFM), high voltage piezoresponse force microscopy (PFM), magnetic force microscopy (MFM) with our unique variable field module, quantitative nanoindenting, and a wide range of environmental accessories and application-ready modules.

Asylum’s MFP-3D™ set the standard for AFM technology, with unprecedented precision and flexibility. The MFP-3D is the first AFM with true independent piezo positioning in all three axes, combined with low noise closed-loop feedback sensor technology. The MFP-3D offers both top and bottom sample viewing for easy integration with most commercially-available inverted optical microscopes.

Asylum’s new Cypher™ AFM is the world’s first completely new small sample AFM/SPM in over a decade, and sets the new standard as the world’s highest resolution AFM. Cypher provides low-drift closed loop atomic resolution for the most accurate images and measurements possible today, rapid AC imaging with small cantilevers, Spot-On™ automated laser alignment for easy setup, integrated thermal, acoustic and vibration control, and broad support for all major AFM/SPM scanning modes and capabilities.

Asylum Research offers the lowest cost of ownership of any AFM company. Ask us about our industry best 2-year warranty, our legendary product and applications support, and our exclusive 6-month money-back satisfaction guarantee. We are dedicated to providing the most technically advanced AFMs for researchers who want to take their experiments to the next level. Asylum Research also distributes third party cantilevers from Olympus, Nanoworld/Nanosensors, and our own MFM and iDrive™ tips.