What is "nanosurf"

Nanosurf AG, headquartered in Liestal, Switzerland, is a manufacturer and supplier of nano- microscopes for industrial and academic research, as well as for educational purposes. Nanosurf’s atomic force microscopes ( AFM) and scanning tunneling microscopes ( STM) are used for metrological surface inspections and for the visualization of structures on the nanometer scale.

Nanosurf worked with NASA’s Phoenix Mars mission to provide the atomic force microscopy module for the Mars probe.