Atomic Force Microscopy, Scanning Probe Microscopes, and Nanotechnology

Historical

The 1986 Nobel Prize in Physics

Dr Gerd Binnig and Dr Heinrich Rohrer, IBM Research Laboratory, Zurich, Switzerland, were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for their design of the scanning tunnelling microscope.

Scanning Tunneling Microscopy from Birth to Adolescence

Nobel lectrure, Dec. 8, 1986, by Gerd Binning and Heinrich Rohrer.

Scanning Probe Microscopy: SPM

by John Cross

Overview of Scanning Probe Microscopy Techniques

From nanoScience Instruments

Theory and Simulation of SPM

This introduction includes the history of SPM development, techniques summary and a virtual SPM. From IN-VSEE, Arizona State University .

Applications and Images

Single-molecule recognition imaging microscopy

Describes a technique in an AFM that allows recognition of a specific type of molecule in a complex sample (chromatin) while simultaneously yielding high-resolution topographic images. C. Stroh et al., PNAS, 2004, vol. 101, no. 34

Scanning Probe Evolution in Biology

Horber JK, Miles MJ. Department of Physiology, Wayne State University School of Medicine.

NanoTheatre from Veeco

This is an extensive image collection of biological (cells, viruses, DNA, hair, and more), semiconductor, data storage, and materials SPM  which are available for downloading for educational use only.

Library from Veeco Instruments

An extensive collection of reference articles and applications.

IBM's SPM Image Gallery

This is a very interesting and humorous spot. It contains an introduction to scanning tunneling microscopy and graphical representation (see the Lobby). The STM image gallery includes artistic impressions of metal surfaces and designs created by placing atoms on the surface with the STM.

IAP/TU Wien STM Gallery

Introduction to the scanning tunneling microscope, images of metal surfaces images of metals, and applications to crystal growth. The Institut fuer Allgemeine Physik, Technische Universitaet Wien

SPM of Biological Systems in Food and Agriculture

Institute of Food Research, Norwich, UK

Play and Work in the NanoWorlds

Scanned Tip and Electron Image Lab, University of Missouri at St. Louis, USA

SPM Experimental Techniques and Image Gallery

Nanoscale Physics Lab @ Purdue University

NSOM Near-field Scanning Optical Microscopy

Near-field Scanning Optical Microscopy (NSOM)

National Institute of Standards NIST

Facility and Departmental Information

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany	Scanning Probe Microscope
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)	Physics Laboratory, Electron and Optical Physics Division
Pennsylvania State University	STM in the Weiss Group Departments of Chemistry and Physics
Purdue University, USA	Nanophysics, Physics Department
Stirling University	Institute of Nanotechnology
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology	Nano-Optics Group
Technische Universitaet Wien	STM Gallery, The Institut fuer Allgemeine Physik,
University of Arkansas	Nanoscience, Dept. of Physics
University of Bristol	Department of Physics, Microstructural Physics
University of Calif. at Santa Barbara	Cleland Group, Dept. of Physics
	Nanotech
University of Glasgow	Solid State Physics, Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Louisville	3D Nanoscale Imaging Facility
University of Melbourne	Microanalytical Research Center
University of Missouri at St. Louis, USA	Scanned Tip and Electron Image Lab,
University of Wisconsin	Hamers Group
Wayne State University	NanoBioScience Institute
Washington State University	Spectroscopy and Microscopy of Materials K.W. Hipps & Associates, Department of Chemistry & Material Science Program