LabViewT for Control of PNI AFM products

Pacific Nanotechnology has developed a LabView™ interface for customizing the Pacific Nanotechnology, Inc. AFM products. Although PNI offers SPMCockpit™ software for acquiring and analyzing AFM images, sometimes it is desirable to customize the software for specific applications. A scientist or engineer might desire an application for a special type of lithography, or a test that includes another piece of instrumentation such as a laser.

The Nano-R™ and Nano-I™ AFM products can now be operated with the standard SPMCockpit™ software or with a GUI (graphic user interface) created with the LabView™ software.

LabView™ (Laboratory Virtual Instrument Engineering Workbench) is a graphical programming language that has been widely adopted as the standard for data acquisition and instrument control software. It is not platform specific and is supported on Windows, MacOS, Linux, Solaris™, and HP-UX.

Because of LabView's™ simple but powerful graphical interface, users can now expand and customize their instrument to fit their needs while still keeping the current functionality of the software. This allows the users to creatively explore the limits of their instruments without being hindered by software. They can also customize its abilities to collect and display images in any style they want.

To take advantage of the full power of LabView™ on the Pacific Nanotechnology AFM systems, you should have experience with programming and SPM system architecture.