Applications

Mountains® is used every day in labs and industry for analyzing and monitoring surface quality in a wide range of applications.

Automotive - Mechanics
Semiconductors
  • Twist evaluation
  • Bearings (Gothic Arch)
  • Sealing leakage
  • Car body paint
  • Transmission, gear wheels
  • EBT steel sheets
  • BGA, Flipchips
  • Wafer stress
  • Critical dimensions
  • IC package warpage
  • CMP defects
  • Solar cells
  • LED, Lighting
Optics - Data storage
Material science
  • Micro-lens arrays
  • Magnetic heads
  • Fiber optic connectors
  • Polishing marks
  • Micro-Fresnel lenses
  • Force spectroscopy
  • Indentation
  • Adhesion
  • Corrosion (4D Series)
  • Structured surfaces
  • Contamination
  • Crystals
Paper - Textile
Medical - Cosmetics
  • Coatings
  • Ink deposition
  • Offset, printing rolls
  • Calendering
  • Raised print
  • Watermarks
  • Counterfeiting
  • Hip joint prostheses
  • anti-wrinkle cream tests
  • Healing of wounds
  • Skin ageing
  • Teeth wear
  • Stents
Micromechanics
Nanotechnologies - SPM
  • MEMS
  • Flatness of parts
  • Automatic partition
  • Microcontour
  • Microfluidics
  • Spiral springs
  • Nanowalls, Nanodots
  • Tip deconvolution
  • Protein unfolding
Plastics - Leather
Miscellaneous
  • Grained plastics
  • Dashboard moulds
  • Polymerization
  • Biodegradation
  • Conductive polymers
  • Thermoforming
  • Forensics