SPS-CREATEC GmbH is a subsidary of Createc Fischer & Co. GmbH. It was established in 2003 to develop, build and service scanning probe microscopes. The company managed by Albrecht Fischer and Dr. Sven Zöphel has its offices in Berlin.
Our LT-STM was developed with Dr. Gerhard Meyer during the PhD thesis of Sven Zöphel at the FU Berlin in the group of Prof. K.-H. Rieder.
Following the demand of our customers we are continuously developing this instrument. For example the q-plus AFM upgrade for existing users and new systems was recently launched, and this has already been adopted by a number of our users in the UK and Ireland. The CreaTec LT-STM is very well known for it's outstanding stability and performance in the scientific community.
The LT-STM is specially designed for working at atomic scale at low temperature (i.e. to perform atomic / molecular manipulation or local spectroscopy). The STM has a modified Besocke beetle design which ensures its high stability (dz<1pm) and only a small drift.
- High stability Besocke beetle type STM with AFM option
- Very small drift at low temperature: <2Å/h in thermal equilibrium
- Temperature variable: 6-300K
- Optional pumping of the LHe cryostat for temperatures below 4K
- Very low helium consumption: 4 litres in 48 hours guaranteed (up to 100h achieved!)
- Optical access to the tunnelling junction
- 6 electrical contacts to the sample in the STM
- Sample transfer at low temperatures
- Magnetic tip transfer system
- Scan range: 1µm x 1µm x 0.2µm @ 6K
- Clean ‘in situ’ dosing or evaporation
- Powerful software with spectroscopy and nanostructuring support
