Welcome to Fischer Instrumentation (GB) Ltd -

A microsite dedicated to material analysis using micro hardness and nano hardness testing

If you want a simple hardness tester that dents your material and leaves you to measure the diagonal – this site is not for you.

For more challenging microhardness and nanohardness testing needs however…

such as an ultra thin hard coating on a soft substrate; the hardness pattern within boundary layers; the elastic and plastic properties ; the creep properties; characteristic qualities such as modulus of indentation and the elastic-plastic energy portions, and, to remove subjective operator errors .... read more

Fischer exhibited and presented at CAMTEC II, Cambridge, 29th-30th March 2010, the Symposium on Fine Scale Mechanical Characterisation and Behaviour. Click here to download the free application paper on Enhanced Stiffness Procedure (ESP). 

FISCHER'S SEMINARS COME TO THE UK! 

Fischer GB was delighted with a full house of twenty for their first coating thickness and materials analysis seminar and have gone on to organise a third seminar to be held in the South of England towards the end of 2011.  More details will be posted on this microsite.  Read the first report

CASE STUDY: Fischer spectrometer chosen to pre-scan mineral samples for Diamond Light Source beamline.  Read more on Fischer's sister microsite dedicated to materials analysis.

Microhardness Case Study: Micro Hardness Determination of Cured Lacquer on Thin Polymer Film Substrates

Characterisation of non metallic films on polymer substrates is very important when the materials are being used in applications which require the films to give certain surface properties for providing resistance to impact, scratching and general wear while in use.
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