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Company Overview
as of October 27
th
, 2010
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48, Joliot Curie Str. 1113 Sofia Bulgaria tel: +359 2 9630941 fax: +359 2 9630732
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Who we are:
• Company Name: • Brand Name for AFM probes and accessories: • Slogan: • Unique Selling Proposition:
Partners Clients Innovative Solutions Bulgaria Ltd. (ISB Ltd.) Budget Sensors “Quality meets Price”
Offering standardized, world class AFM probes and calibration standards for the most competitive price
History:
• 2001: Founded in Sofia, Bulgaria in April 2001 by Kamen Nikolov • 2001: Establishing European distribution network • 2002: Entering the market in USA and Canada • 2003-2004: Developing a Worldwide distribution network • 2005: NanoWorld Hodling AG purchases 100% of ISB and becomes the sole owner of the company. Kamen Nikolov is managing ISB to present date.
• 2006-2010: Expansion of the product portfolio and distribution network • 2006-2010: At least double digit sales growth every single year, including the years of the toughest financial crisis
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Company Facts:
• Head Office: located in Sofia, Bulgaria • Production Facilities: • Employees as of Sep. 27 th 2010: located in Botevgrad, Bulgaria (about 80 km to the north from Sofia) 32 (thirty two) • Sales: not disclosed • BudgetSensors offers most commercially relevant AFM probes, that are needed by scientists from all over the world for daily use. Specialized products with a small market share are not being targeted. • Reclamations regarding product quality are practically not existent
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Our Products:
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PART I: AFM PROBES
• Silicon AFM probes • Tapping Mode Probes • Force Modulation Probes • Contact Mode Probes • Conductive AFM Probes • Gold Coated AFM Probes • Magnetic (MFM) AFM Probes • Diamond-Like-Carbon (DLC) AFM Probes • All-In-One - AFM Probes with Multiple Cantilevers on a Single Chip • Tipless All-In-One AFM Probes • Silicon Nitride AFM probes • Mixed Boxes with AFM probes (BudgetComboBox) •
PART II: CALIBRATION STANDARDS
• Tipcheck – AFM Tip Characterizer • Height Calibration Standards • XYZ Calibration Nanogrid
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Part I AFM PROBES
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Tip of Silicon AFM Probes:
• Micromachined, monolithic silicon probe • Excellent uniformity • Consistently sharp tip radius of less than 10 nm • Different coatings for tip and detector side of the cantilever
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Holder Chip of Silicon AFM Probes:
• Fits most commercial AFMs as it is industry standard size • Compatible with Bruker/Veeco AFMs, TM Microscopes, JEOL, Agilent/Molecular Imaging, and most other commercial AFMs
Alignment Grooves Feature:
• Most silicon AFM probes now feature alignment grroves at the back side of the holder chip, a necessary feature for some AFMs, such as NanoSurf • Types that already offer alignment grooves show the suffix
–G
in their order code on the BudgetSensors website
Clients
BudgetSensors silicon AFM probes holder chip scheme with alignment grooves (all products excluding AIO types)
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Tapping Mode AFM probes
Partners Clients Applications: Resonant Freq.
Force Constants Tip Radius Coating
(Soft)
Tapping, Intermittent Contact 150, 190 and 300 kHz 5, 48 and 40 N/m < 10 nm optional 30 nm thick Aluminium or 70nm Gold reflex coating For more information: http://www.budgetsensors.com/products.html
Laser Ablation Crater in Sapphire
, 20 micron scan. Scanned with a Tap300Al AFM probe
By courtesy of Scott MacLaren, UIUC, USA Order Codes:
Tap150 and Tap150Al / Tap190 and Tap190 Al / Tap300 and Tap300Al
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Force Modulation Mode AFM probes
Clients Application: Resonant Freq.
Force Constant Tip Radius Coating
Force Modulation, Light Tapping Mode, Pulsed Force Mode (PFM) 75 kHz 3 N/m < 10 nm optional 30 nm thick Aluminium or 70nm Gold reflex coating For more information: http://www.budgetsensors.com/products.html
Order Codes:
Multi75 and Multi75Al
Xanthomonas campestris bacteria in potato agar
1 micron scan. Scanned with Multi75 AFM probe in Light Tapping Mode
Taken by Dr. Yordan Stefanov, ISB
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Contact Mode AFM probes
Partners Clients Application: Resonant Freq.
Force Constant Tip Radius Coating
Contact Mode 13 kHz 0,2 N/m < 10 nm optional 30 nm thick Aluminium or 70nm Gold reflex coating For more information: http://www.budgetsensors.com/products.html
Human hair
Scanned in contact mode with Contact AFM probes
Order Codes:
Contact and ContAl
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Conductive AFM probes
Partners Clients Applications:
• Scanning Capacitance Microscopy (SCM), • Electrostatic Force Microscopy (EFM), • Kelvin probe Force Microscopy (KFM), • Scanning probe lithography • Other Electrical measurements Veeco Electrostatic Force Microscopy (EFM) test sample. The topographic data (first image) shows two metal lines and the electrostatic force data helps distinguish between the biased line (left, 2 Volts) and the grounded one (right). Scan size 7 microns. Scanned with ElectriMulti75 in EFM mode.
Taken by Dr. Yordan Stefanov, ISB Order Codes:
Tap190E, Tap300E, Multi75E and ContE For more information: http://www.budgetsensors.com/products.html
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Gold Coated AFM probes
Partners Clients Applications: Coating:
Special applications, mostly from biological sector Available as 70nm thick overall or detector side only Gold Coating For more information: http://www.budgetsensors.com/products.html
Order Codes:
Tap300GD, Tap300GB, Multi75GD, Multi75GB, ContGD and Cont GB
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Magnetic (MFM) AFM Probes
Partners Clients Application: Resonant Freq.
Force Constant Tip Radius Coating
Magnetic Force Microscopy (MFM) 75 kHz 3 N/m < 60 nm Magnetic coating on tip side Aluminium reflex coating on detector side For more information: http://www.budgetsensors.com/products.html
Order Code:
Multi75M
Magnetic field MFM image of a zip disk
scanned with Multi75M AFM probes on an Asylum MFP-3D AFM.
courtesy of Scott MacLaren,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
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Diamond-Like-Carbon (DLC) AFM probes
Applications: Resonant Freq.
Force Constant Tip Radius Coatings
Tapping, Soft Tapping, Force Modulation, Contact Mode
durable tip
13, 75, 150, 190 and 300 kHz 0.2, 3, 5, 48 and 40 N/m < 15 nm 15 nm thick DLC coating on tip side and 30nm Aluminium reflex coating on detector side For more information: http://www.budgetsensors.com/products.html
Clients Order Codes:
ContDLC, Multi75DLC, Tap150DLC, Tap190DLC and Tap300DLC
Compact Disc Surface
scanned with Tap300DLC AFM probes
Taken by Dr. Yordan Stefanov, ISB
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All-In-One - AFM Probes with Multiple Cantilevers on a Single Chip
Applications: Resonant Freq.
Force Constant Tip Radius Coating
Tapping, Soft Tapping, Force Modulation, Contact Mode
Four different cantilevers on a singe chip
15, 80, 150 and 350 kHz 0.2, 2.7, 7.4 and 40 N/m < 10 nm optional 30 nm thick Aluminium reflex coating For more information: http://www.budgetsensors.com/products.html
Order Codes:
AIO and AIOAl
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Tipples All-In-One AFM Probes
Partners Clients Applications: Resonant Freq.
Force Constant Coating
Tapping, Soft Tapping, Force Modulation, Contact Mode
Four different cantilevers on a singe chip TIPLES
15, 80, 150 and 350 kHz 0.2, 2.7, 7.4 and 40 N/m optional 30 nm thick Aluminium reflex coating For more information: http://www.budgetsensors.com/products.html
Order Codes:
AIO-TL and AIOAl-TL
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Silicon Nitride AFM probes
Partners Clients Application: Coating: Cantilevers: Tips:
Soft Contact Mode 70 nm thick Gold/Chromium 4 triangular cantilevers, 2 short and 2 long ones Wedge tip, radius <15nm effective tip height > 800 nm For more information: http://www.budgetsensors.com/products.html
Order Code:
SiNi
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BudgetComboBox
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• Mixed box of 50 BudgetSenosrs AFM Probes • Personallized, made to order • Simple price scheme • Priced at the normal price of boxes of 50 pcs • Fast delivery, worldwide shipment
Clients
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Part II AFM CALIBRATION STANDARDS
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Height Standards
Products Partners Clients Application:
Universal Sample for Nanometre Calibration in the Z-Axis and XY Calibration for Large Scanners
Step heights:
20, 100 and 500nm For more information: http://www.budgetsensors.com/products.html
Order Code:
HS-20MG, HS-100MG, HS-500MG
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XYZ Calibration Nanogrid
Partners Clients Application:
Universal Sample for XYZ Calibration to the Nanometre
Step height:
20nm For more information: http://www.budgetsensors.com/products.html
Order Code:
CS-20NG
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Tip Characterizer
Products Application: Partners
Suitable for determining the sharpness of an AFM tip
Clients
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Order Code:
Tipcheck
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Other Application Images:
Partners Clients
All images by courtesy of
Scott MacLaren
, UIUC, USA and are taken on an Asylum Research MFp-3D AFM using Tap300Al AFM probes Dark Chocolate, 15 micron scan. E-coli bacterium with flagellum, 6 micron scan Ion sputtered Silicon Carbide, 1.5 micron scan. MgO crystal, carved in a Focused Ion Beam (FIB) system. The top, unaltered surface shows single and double atomic steps. Crystallization of poly (benzyl-beta-L-glutamate) on glass, 30 micron scan. Stressed Silicon Nitride Membrane with Nickel nanoparticles, 90 micron scan.
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Whom we work with: Sister Companies:
Although ISB is part of the NanoWorld Group, it is operating as an independent Company. BudgetSensors AFM probes are produced and distributed separately from the other company brands – NanoSensors and NanoWorld.
Suppliers:
ISB is importing a wide variety of production supplies like raw wafers, gases, masks etc. from various companies in Western Europe.
Selected Distribution Partners:
• NanoAndMore USA ( www.nanoandmore.com
) • NanoAndMore GmbH ( www.nanoandmore.com
) • Ted Pella ( www.tedpella.com
) • Tomoe Engineering Co., Ltd. ( www.tomo-e.co.jp
) • Kwok Fai Trading Co • Pucotech ( www.pucotech.com
) • Crest Technology Pte.Ltd. • …and many more!
- North America and Mexico - Europe - World Wide - Japan - Hong Kong - Korea - Singapore
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Selected Clients:
• Harvard • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) • Stanford • IBM • Hitachi • University of California • University of Illinois • University of Washington • University of Malaysia • National Taiwan University • Australian National University • and many more...
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Thank you very much for your attention!
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