Bruker HybridStage Piezo Scanner Stage

The HybridStage is a modular, piezo-based sample scanner stage with a motorised unit for large sample movements.

• Characterisation 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)

• Characterisation 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 motorised stages for automated mapping or scanning of large areas (20 x 20 mm²)

• 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 millimetre distances

• Automated and streamlined workflow with the motorized HybridStage