LSM 5 EXCITER - Carl Zeiss

Functional Surfaces
Profilometry the Innovative Way
For the characterization of material surfaces, the LSM 5 EXCITER offers
the complete functionality of a non-contact optical 3D profilometer.
Precise assessment of surface quality
The LSM 5 EXCITER is the ideal tool for inspecting the
quality of engineering surfaces, whether of precisionmachined
metal tools or machine components, or highperformance
ceramic parts under tribological analysis, that
go into vehicles.
The LSM 5 EXCITER reliably takes up 2D height profiles
under your detailed control. See the highly resolved
microscopic image, and decide on-line where and how
you want the profile to be acquired – along a straight line,
or a freehand line to evade damaged, unrepresentative
areas on the sample, or to exactly follow a contour. Where
required, more than 31,000 profile data will be available
within less than five minutes for a highly informative
roughness or waviness analysis.
Nature successfully copied
Microtextured surfaces, self-cleaning or reducing air drag,
harness biological phenomena to technical applications.
In connection with innovative techniques of 3D material
machining and patterning, the LSM 5 EXCITER is unrivaled
for its flexibility regarding 3D imaging formats. The X,
Y and Z dimensions of the confocal image stack readily
adapt to the sample characteristics after micropatterning.
Highly informative 3D visualization techniques of the
LSM 5 EXCITER software permit fast qualitative assessment
of friction and wear tests made on such innovative surfaces.
Comprehensive geometric measurement functions
and functional parameters such as bearing ratio, area and
volume properties guarantee that the surface texture is
thoroughly characterized.
22 µm
20 µm
18 µm
16 µm
14 µm
12 µm
10 µm
8 µm
6 µm
4 µm
2 µm
0 µm
Laser-patterned paper sample.
Multiple Stack Scan from 5 x 1 stacks,
EC Epiplan-Neofluar 20x/0.5;
1783.4 µm x 225.6 µm x 44.0 µm,
2008 x 254 pixels x 89 sections.
14