HybridStage
The HybridStage is a modular, piezo-based sample scanner stage with a motorized unit for large sample movements, ideally suited for challenging biological samples.
Applications
- Characterization of the topographical and mechanical properties of plant cells, cell layers, cartilage, parasites, scaffolds, bones or tissue with typically uneven surfaces
- Single Cell Force Spectroscopy (SCFS)
- Characterization of cell-cell interactions and extracellular matrix proteins
- Membrane tether experiments
- Cell/cell or cell/substrate adhesion in 3D
Key features
- Equipped with three scanner units that can move either the tip or the sample
- Choice of sample scanner best suited to sample (100 x 100 x 100 µm3, 200 x 200 x 200 µm3 or 300 x 300 x 300 µm3)
- Combined piezo and motorized stages for automated mapping or scanning of large areas (20 x 20 mm 2)
- SlimFocus feature for improved optical focus control
- Optical Tiling and Multi-Region Imaging
- Multi-Scan Tissue Mapping
- Batch processing option using the JPK data processing (DP) software
- Maps large objects such as cell scaffolds, printed 3D structures, microspheres or capsules and micro/nano-structured surfaces over millimeter distances
- Automated and streamlined workflow with the motorized HybridStage
