Introduction
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- Make sure both sides of the glass block are clean before you mount cantilevers. These can be cleaned with lens tissue and pure ethanol. If the glass block is heavily contaminated, it can be sonicated in the floating rack which is shown here.
- Do not put the glass block down on the bench, it will scratch the surface, please use the holder.
- Do not use highly acidic or basic buffers (<pH 4.6, >pH 9.0). This will cause a white deposit to appear on the surface of the glass block which cannot be removed.
- Do not overwind the laser or photodetector alignment screws. If they reach the end points do not turn any further.
- Make sure the laser is turned off before looking down the eyepieces of the microscope. An IR filter is in place in front of the eyepieces, but its best practice to make sure the laser is turned off.
- When approaching the sample, take great care in your course step size. It is very easy to crash into the surface which at worst could damage the piezo stack on the instrument.
Rules for the Dimension Icon system
Rules for the Dimension FastScan system
Rules for the Multimode 8 systems
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