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HORIBA will be involved in the Hymet project mainly with two characterization techniques: PP-TOFMS and TERS.

PP-TOFMS (plasma profiling time of flight mass spectrometry) has been developed under an EU project and demonstrated as a potentially high throughput method for the characterisation of a variety of multilayered materials. The technique couples a glow discharge plasma with an orthogonal time of flight mass spectrometer (oTOFMS). The plasma ensures both erosion of the material and ionization of the sputtered species. Ions are detected by the oTOFMS. PP-TOFMS achieves fast depth profiling (several tens of nanometers per second) of inorganic structures with high resolution (down to few nanometers).

Contact person : Agnès Tempez

TERS (Tip Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy) performed with an AFM/Raman platform brings Raman spectroscopy into nanoscale resolution imaging. TERS is therefore a super-resolution chemical imaging technique. The key in TERS is a properly enhancing probe. HORIBA Scientific has developed unique high enhancement TERS probes (OMNI™ TERS probes) that will be used to analyse Hymet samples such as nanostructured materials and ultrathin 2D materials.

Contact person : Marc Chaigneau