SEO – Phoenix 300 Touch Automatic Contact Angle Analyzer

Phoenix-300Touch Brochure

Overview

SEO Phoenix 300 Touch is the latest product in our contact angle analyzer.  It features innovative features with automated, fully software control liquid drop volume.  In order to produce accurate and reproducible contact angle results, the Phoenix 300 Touch featured the intelligent automated Z-head controls.  This Touch feature will automatically move the Z-head to drop a single drop of liquid onto the sample; the user can have a peace of mind for the consistency of how droplet is introduced onto the sample surface.

 

Features

  • Automatically drop volume adjustment by software ( minimum 1 µL )
  • Smart Capture for Super-hydrophilic material
  • Sessile drop method and touch to surface, using in parallel
  • Automatic and rapid sample analysis and high-speed dynamic  image capture
  • Improved precision and reproducibility by the elimination of operator error.
  • Available to connect to notebook or PC via USB port
  • Auto calculation of surface  energy and work of adhesion
  • High resolution and powerful image capture system
  • Automatic and Manual image analysis

Capabilities

  •  Static /Dynamic contact angle measurement
  • Advancing and Receding contact angle by Captive method
  • Sequence image captures by tie basis and dynamic movies
  • Surface Energy / Dynamic Video
  • Sessile Drop / Pendent Drop for Surface Tension
  • Real-Time Adjustment per 1 microliter
  • Smart capture for hydrophilic material
  • Semiconductor applications
  • Detection of organic contamination on PCB and electronic components
  • Evaluation of cleanliness / treatment / coating processing
  • Hydrophobicity and hydrophilicity of solid surfaces
  • Biological application such as the detection and characterization of proteins
  • Adsorption / Wettability of powder and pharmaceutical products
  • Analysis of plasma treatment to increase the wettability of polymers surfaces

Typical Application

  •  Semiconductor applications
  • Detection of organic contamination on PCB and electronic components
  • Evaluation of cleanliness / treatment / coating processing
  • Hydrophobicity and hydrophilicity of solid surfaces
  • Biological application such as the detection and characterization of proteins
  • Adsorption / Wettability of powder and pharmaceutical products
  • Analysis of plasma treatment to increase the wettability of polymers surfaces

1.Static Contact angle measurement

 Measurement range : 0~180°

2. Captive dynamic contact angle (Applied only Smart -A, Smart-T, model only)

3. Easy Surface Energy calculator (GGFY, Owens Wendt, Lewis method)

Using measured contact angle data itself

4. Surface tension by pendent drop method

(1mN/m ~ 1000nM/m)

5. Curved surface sample measuring function

6. Automatic capture at after thermodynamic Equilibrium

(Applied only “Smart -T” model)

Able to get contact angle data from three phases thermodynamic equilibrium

Software function

 1. Static contact angle calculation by three modes

   - Tangent line method 1(For Tilting contact angle and bigger drop volume)

   - Tangent line method 2(For common measurement)

   - Trigonometric function (For low angle measurement : less than 30degree)

2. Realtime Preview Result before capture function

- Able to check condition of image before capture - Measurement data will be display before capture

- Able to check an instant contact angle and surface tension data

3. Automatic capture at after thermodynamic Equilibrium

Contact angle is based on three phases equilibrium, but it is dependent on Sample’s property. There is different equilibrium time for different sample.  User is able to set equilibrium  time as above.

4. Manual mode for critical sample 

5. Auto calculate average

- Automatic calculation of the average contact angle data by the software based on the frames captured.

6. Graphical data

7. Four types of capture modes

  •    Single mode -  One by one capture image
  •    Sequence mode -  Able to check by interval time base
  •    Verify mode -   Will show only one Maximum frequent image
  •    Programmed mode - Use it with Tilting, Time base by triggering

8. Export captured date to Excel (2 modes)

  •    Selected only one image export on whole measured image

  • All images export at once into an collection

9. Manual define Base line  function

  •  User can define the baseline manually for difficult to calculate contact angle

10. Precisely drop volume calculate

  •  Using SEO Pixel Width calibration, user can calculate the drop volume of the liquid precisely

Phoenix 300 Touch Hardware Features

Data Analysis Specification

  Method

And divided

Accuracy Resolution Range Data information Extension

(Remark)

Static contact angle Tangent line metnod1 ±0.1degree ±0.01degree 0~180° Average contact angle, left contact angle, right contact angle, drop volume, height, base line length, base area, measured time, wetting energy, spreading coefficient, work of adhesion
Tangent line metnod2
Trigonometric function
Dynamic contact angle Captive method ±0.1degree ±0.01degree 1~180° Advance angle, Receding angle, Hysterisis, drop volume, etc.,
Tilting method ±0.1degree ±0.01degree 0~90° Work of adhesion, Advance angle, Receding angle, Hysterisis, drop volume, etc., (optional)
Surface tension Pendent drop method ±0.1mN/m ±0.01mN/m 1~1000

mN/m

Drop volume, Surface tension
Surface free energy G.G.F.Y ±0.1mN/m ±0.01mN/m Surface free Energy
Owens-Wendt ±0.1mN/m ±0.01mN/m Surface free Energy, Dispersive value and Polar value
Lewis (Acid/Base) ±0.1mN/m ±0.01mN/m Surface free Energy, Dispersive, Polar, Acid, base value
Capture speed CCD 0~70FPS 0~315FPS      (Optional)
Machine vision Resolution 640x480 1280x1024      (Optional)

Optional Upgradable Accessories List