Type Corporation Founded 2008 Area served Worldwide | Industry Test & measurement Headquarters Zurich, Switzerland | |
Founder Sadik Hafizovic
Flavio Heer
Beat Hofstetter | ||
Zurich Instruments Ltd. is a Swiss company developing and selling advanced test & measurement instruments for dynamic signal analysis. The company is based in Zurich, Switzerland. The company focuses in delivering feature-rich products to academic and industrial research and development organizations.
History
Zurich Instruments was founded in April 2008 as a spin-off from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich). The company commercialized its first HF2 platform in May 2009 after having developed first prototypes for academic research projects. The first derived product was the HF2LI Lock-in Amplifier, which is an instrument suited for physics research facilities. In 2010 the HF2PLL Phase-locked Loop (PLL) followed targeting surface analysis like SPM, STM and AFM. The worldwide adoption of the HF2LI lead to development of the UHFLI Lock-in Amplifier, to date the worlds fastest commercial lock-in amplifier both in terms of frequency range and demodulation bandwidth. In addition, for the first time in commercial products, a lock-in amplifier was capable to support boxcar averaging (option introduced in 2013) and signal digitizing (option launched in 2014 ).
Zurich Instruments has actively fostered international cooperation in the scope of EU funded research projects, worldwide sales network and development partners. For instance, in May 2011, Zurich Instruments and Nanosurf have announced the start of a strategic technology partnership that offers the HF2PLL Phase-locked Loop as upgrade path for the easyPLL platform for SPM applications. In a more recent collaboration, the electrical impedance spectroscopy platform (EISP) was launched together with French Fluigent and Dutch Micronit for the commercialization of ready-to-use electrical impedance analysis system.