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“The
Atomic Force Microscope - 30 years of development in nanoscience”
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Thursday, 17. Nov 2016 |
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15:15 – 16:15 |
Speaker: David Haviland (KTH)
Abstract :
30 years ago the
Scanning Tunnelling Microscope (STM) received the
Nobel Prize
in Physics, the same year that the Atomic
Force Microscope (AFM) first appeared
in the literature. Both are examples of
scanning probe microscopes and the AFM has
proved to have much broader impact.
With its ability
to explore a tremendous variety of material surfaces and tip-surface
interactions (anything that gives rise to a force), to
work in many different types of
environments (vacuum, gas, liquid), as well as it’s
low cost and its ease of use,
the AFM has played a leading role in the
development of nanoscience and nanotechnology.
The inventors of
the AFM received the 2016 Kavli Prize for Nanoscience this year in
The AFM also
offers the opportunity to explore and exploit some very interesting
properties of nonlinear dynamical systems, currently
at the heart of the development of
analytical AFM.
The talk will
review the history and cover some of the recent developments of the AFM.