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Texas Tech University, H. S. Tanvir Ahmed, December 2010
APPENDIX I
(EMAIL WITH DR. ILJA HERMANN: HOW TO SETUP THE
NANOANALYZER)
The aim of this section is to target the user of the NanoAnalyzer tool and
hence, information that relates to the scratch hardness measurement and tapping mode
modulus measurement with the use of the NA head will only be reviewed here. This
section will detail instructions beyond the CETR, Inc. manual on how to operate the
hardware. Before proceeding with this section, the user should first read the
instruction manual, and become familiar with the software interface in the off-line
mode. It will better enable the user to follow the controls and instructions of the CETR
NanoAnalyzer interface of the Universal Materials Tester (UMT) that is documented
in this section.
I.A Starting-up the NanoAnalyzer
I.A.1
Begin with the machine in stop mode, and with no software running.
Double click on the UMT icon (shortcut on the desktop) and select
OptionsLoad (from the menu bar). By default, the command opens the
C:/NanoAnalyzer/TRIB folder where a folder named ‘Option files’ is located
at. Each option file is written for specific purpose only and will only work with
a specific head mounted on the UMT machine. (The reader should consult the
manual about how to write an option file: See section 6, Calibration
Procedures on page 96 of the UMT user’s manual).
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