NanoWizard® V NanoScience
The NanoWizard® V combines high spatio-temporal resolution with a large scan area, flexible experiment design, and outstanding integration with advanced optical microscope systems. Its automated setup, alignment, and re-adjustment of system parameters opens new possibilities for long-term, self-regulating experiments series.
Discover the 5th Generation NanoWizard NanoScience AFM

Nanowizard® V sets a new benchmark in automation while providing a host of new technical capabilities and a degree of comfort second to none.
- Latest generation packed with novel innovations
- Proven legacy of success through an install base of nearly 1000 JPK/Bruker NanoWizard AFMs across the globe
- Supported by dedicated cantilever development for high-resolution imaging, fast scanning, and customized applications
- Intuitive V8 software environment
- Unmatched ease-of-use
- Ideal for multi-user imaging facilities
Perfected Performance and Increased Productivity
The NanoWizard V is an outstanding tool for the nanosciences, uniquely combining technical innovation with performance and user comfort.
Paving the way for new scientific discoveries
- Lowest noise scanner and detection system ensure high-resolution data and unrivalled performance
- High-speed scanning rates of up to 400 lines/sec
- Ideal for real-time investigation of dynamics
- Automation for improved productivity and maximized throughput
- High-resolution nanomechanical imaging with PeakForce-QI™, PeakForce Tapping®, PeakForce QNM,
and QI - DirectOverlay for AFM in conjunction with advanced optical microscopy
- Features the latest ExperimentPlanner and ExperimentControl options
- Widest range of accessories for environment control, electrical measurements and more
Superior Performance
- Versatile imaging from atomic lattices to large scale samples
- Largest range of add-ons
- Extended optical viewing field for AFM with tiling feature
- Optimized storage of parameters and favorite settings
- Intuitive user operation
- Standardized batch analysis routines for the generation of statistically relevant datasets
- Fully automated cantilever and detector alignment
- Capture fast dynamic processes in harsh environments
- Follow reactions across multiple time scales, from milliseconds, to seconds and minutes


Comprehensive Nanomechanical Characterization
Bruker continuously strives to improve the nanomechanical characterization capabilities of its AFMs and to provide easy technology solutions for complex scientific endeavors.
The NanoWizard V is the ideal solution for quantifying nanomechanical properties and understanding the crucial role they play in structure, morphology, and molecular interactions.
The NanoWizard V pushes the boundaries of science, opening the AFM technology to a wider range of applications and making nanomechanical characterization faster, easier, and more accessible for users of all fields of science.
Unrivalled Capabilities
- Fast scanning and ease-of-use combined with topographic and nanomechanical imaging
- Characterization of viscoelastic properties using microrheological measurements
- Contact resonance for mechanical characterization of stiff samples (>10 GPa)
- Intuitive and powerful RampDesigner software
- Highly sensitive force control and tip-saving features
- True, real-time force curve monitoring
- Mechanical mapping combined with electrical sample characterization in a single run
New Chapter in Quantitative Imaging
PeakForce-QI, the symbiosis of PeakForce Tapping and QI mode, delivers unique quantitative nanomechanical imaging capabilities. It combines highest acquisition rates with advanced force control to deliver highest resolution, multi-parametric images. The automated setup, operation, and calibration make it simple to configure and run an experiment, and obtain top-quality images and data quickly and easily, even for non-experts.
Powerful Data Analysis
- Easy, reliable batch processing
- Flexible creation of topography images at different forces
- Zero force (contact point) imaging Image stack output of any channel from batch processing



Automation and Intuitive Operation at Its Best
The NanoWizard V was designed to meet the specific needs of scientists in research and industry today. Innovative hardware and software solutions have led to increased throughput, automated measurement pro-cedures, and batch processing routines that allow scientists to focus on what’s important – their research.
Highest Level of Automation
- Automated alignment of laser detection system
- Automated cantilever calibration
- Automated multi-region imaging using HybridStage or motorized stage
- Intuitive scripting of automated experiments with ExperimentPlanner
- ExperimentControl for remote monitoring of experiments
Intuitive Operation
- Workflow-based software with fundamental ease-of-use features
- User management, ideal for multi-user facilities
- Integrated software assistance
- Single-click optical image calibration
- Integrated camera for alignment of laser detection system
- Comprehensive data processing routines
- Convenient saving of parameters and favorite settings


Unrivalled Flexibility by Design
The renowned tip-scanner technology and modular design of the NanoWizard V NanoScience AFM can be seamlessly integrated with advanced optical techniques.
A wide range of advanced modes and accessories make it the most flexible AFM available on the market today, enabling versatile experimental setups and environmental control.
Comprehensive Range of Add-ons and Accessories
- Broad range of temperature control accessories (-120 °C up to +300 °C)
- Scanning Thermal Microscopy (SThM)
- Magnetic Force Microscopy (MFM)
- Nanomanipulation
- Friction Force Microscopy
- Multimodal imaging
- Stretching stages
- Various fluid cells
- see accessories brochure for more options
High-Resolution Electrical Characterization
- Conductive AFM (CAFM)
- Kelvin Probe Force Microscopy (KPFM)
- Electrostatic Force Microscopy (EFM)
- Piezo Force Microscopy (PFM)
- Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM)
- Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy (SECM)
For Complex Experiments, from Polymers to Solar Cells
- Optimized environmental control options
- Optical accessibility of the sample, e.g., for defined illumination
- 980 nm detection laser option
- Various modes for long-term, unattended experiments





The New Benchmark for Fast Scanning of Large Samples
The NanoWizard V NanoScience platform delivers fast scanning over a large scan area. The full scan range in all three axes remains available, providing unparalleled scanning speeds and easy switching between sample features, without relocation of the sample or a reduction of imaging speed.
The Fast Scanning option is ideal for the investigation of dynamic processes, delivering the speed and accuracy necessary to study phenomena, such as crystallization, growth, melting, and domain building, in real time.
Innovative Fast Scanning Capabilities in an Automated AFM
- Improved productivity and maximized throughput for reliable statistics
- Fast z-piezo with high resonance frequency delivers fastest feedback
- Adaptive intelligence-based scanning routines enable scanning rates of up to 400 lines/sec
- NestedScanner technology provides fast scanning of corrugated samples with a z-range of up to 16.5 µm
- Active balancing allows fast scanning over large scan areas
High-Resolution Electrical Characterization
- Conductive AFM (CAFM)
- Kelvin Probe Force Microscopy (KPFM)
- Electrostatic Force Microscopy (EFM)
- Piezo Force Microscopy (PFM)
- Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM)
- Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy (SECM)
Stability and Highest Data Accuracy Meets Ease-of-Use
- Fast scanning with advanced closed-loop control
- Fast z-piezo equipped with capacitive sensor for highest data accuracy
- Accurate force control thanks to latest feedback technologies
- DirectDrive feature for increased cantilever excitation stability
- Batch processing and advanced data analysis routines
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