All of Surrey NanoSystems' Carbon Nanotube and sputtering tools are controlled by a unique, touch-screen SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) software package - developed and refined over more than seven years.

User-friendly machine control

The NanoSoft (Carbon Nanotube growth) and GammaSoft (thin film deposition) software packages provide an extremely user-friendly interface that sits between  the user and the tool - making complex growth or deposition processes both easy to create and run.

The software uses MIMIC displays of the system and other graphical techniques to provide fine control over all stages of processing. Users are typically provided with ready-to-use processing programs, which provide recipe templates that may be adapted easily by users for their own applications. Users also have full manual control of the tool, and can create their own custom processes using a menu-driven user interface to control gas flow rates, voltage and current levels, RF power, temperatures, etc.

Sophisticated datalogging, trending and batch tracking facilities help users to develop and document their own processes, to optimise recipes for commercial production. Remote monitoring is also possible.