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Scientific Equipmentsurface metrology measurements
All the articles in our blog about surface metrology measurements
Monday, August 3, 2026
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
High-performance hardware naturally enables fast measurements. In the smartWLI series, however, the available computing power is leveraged not only for speed, but also specifically to assess the quality of measurement data. As a result, an additional layer of information is generated alongside...
Wednesday, March 25, 2026
Precision manufacturing relies on advanced technologies to produce complex components with high accuracy and efficiency. But verifying tolerances alone is no longer enough — the real question is whether parts truly meet their functional requirements.
From aerospace to medical and automotive...
Tuesday, February 17, 2026
Schaefer will participate as sponsor at the CNR-IMM 2026 Congress “BRIDGE – Boosting Research and Innovation for a Digital and Green Economy”, taking place on...
Tuesday, February 10, 2026
Schaefer SEE will participate in the university workshop "Optical 3D Metrology – Shape and Surface Measurement for Advanced Manufacturing Processes," promoted by the Department of Engineering at the University of Perugia. The workshop aims to foster integration...
Friday, July 25, 2025
Synthetic diamond is shaping the future of renewable energy and power electronics.
This sentence perfectly sums up the importance of this revolutionary material in next-...
Thursday, October 27, 2022
Sensofar prepared a premium event to show you the two new heads from the ...
Monday, June 6, 2022
Full field vibration mode shape and transient analysis
- Non-Scanning MEMS Analyzer
- Million-data-points vibration maps
- Picometer vibration resolution
- In- and out-of-plane up to 25Mhz...
Thursday, February 10, 2022
Sensofar’s line of Integrable Heads is available
More than just a birthday, Sensofar has even more achievements to celebrate!
Sensofar Metrology, with over 20 years’ experience in developing optical surface metrology systems, is launching a new four-sensor...
Thursday, November 25, 2021
Schaefer's technological offer, for scientists and researchers, also includes acoustic booths, with a very high degree of customization. We have already gained significant experience in the field, delivering several booths to clients in industrial and academic research. Each...
Wednesday, September 29, 2021
October 4-9, 2021 - The most awaited European meeting of the year for the manufacturing industry is taking place!
Sensofar ansd Schaefer will be there, featuring the latest systems!
All attendees who visit us will have the opportunity to see a live...
Thursday, June 17, 2021
Finitura superficiale misurata mediante microscopia olografica digitale (DHM®)
From Pioneer work in 1999...
Optics Letters (Vol. 24, No. 5) and Applied Optics (Vol. 38, No. 34)
The first simultaneous...
Monday, January 11, 2021
We're the distributors of Daeil Systems instruments. Daeil is a korean company that supplies a wide range of vibration isolation systems, including thousands of optical tables, from passive to active isolation systems. Customers are industries,...
Monday, November 16, 2020
S lynx - Compact 3D surface profiler
Have a look at this case study: "Reducing Friction for Efficient Motion of Sliding Surfaces by Laser Surface Texturing".
Here below we summarize the main topics of this interesting article.
The problem: "Energy losses due to friction and wear of sliding surfaces...
Tuesday, October 20, 2020
Due to the complexity involving optical surface metrology, Sensofar has developed a poster-document that will help you understand all the points and steps to follow in the measurement process with the ...
Wednesday, August 5, 2020
Atomic force microscopy (AFM) is a particularly powerful technique for characterization of 2D materials including graphene and transition metal dichalcogenides like molybdenum disulfide (MoS2). AFM can easily measure not only topography but also electrical and mechanical...
Monday, June 22, 2020
ISO 25178 is considered one of the main milestones in the characterization of 3D areal surface texture. It is based on the principle that nature is inherently three-dimensional. Thus, it is the...
Friday, April 3, 2020
Sensofar S Wide - Large area 3D optical profilometer
Wednesday, April 8th, 2020 - 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM CEST
Presented by: Carles Otero & Sandra de Pedro
Learn all about Sensofar’s new...
Monday, January 13, 2020
Early 2020 PROMO: optical profilers and benchtop SEM, ex-demo half-new units, at outstanding prices!
PROMOTION ENDED - All the instruments have been sold
We are selling two 3D optical profilometers (Sensofar S Neox and GBS Ilmenau Compact) and a very recently produced benchtop SEM (manufactured by the korean company Emcrafts). They have never been installed...
Thursday, May 30, 2019
GBS ILmenau has exhibited their instruments at the Control Show in Stuttgart at the beginning of May. As many competitors they wanted to demonstrate their capabilities. Since not everyone had the opportunity to visit the exhibition we've picked up a few applications in the form of 3D scans....
Monday, February 18, 2019
Schaefer Italy is proud to announce the release by Sensofar Metrology of the 5th generation of its flagship optical profiler. The S neox is a high-performance non-contact 3D optical profiler microscope system purposely-designed for sub-nano, nano and micro-scale...
Wednesday, November 15, 2017
Schaefer Italy would like to invite you to the live session of the new version 6.4 release of the Sensofar software SensoSCAN.
In this version, you will find a lot of new features in the following sections: Inspection & Acquisition, Display & Analysis, Configuration &...
Monday, June 12, 2017
Sensofar Metrology has developed new innovative software features for their 3-in-1 S-line 3D surface metrology systems. Two new measurement technologies –Confocal Fusion & Continuous Confocal– represent significant new developments in 3D surface metrology, and underline Sensofar’s...
Tuesday, May 2, 2017
Surface Texture Measurement in 3D - Practical applications and guidelines for implementing ISO 25178.
We will review:
- The need for 3D texture analysis as compared with linear profiles.
- A basic description of the ISO parameters.
- The concept of...