Tags: scanning probe microscopy (SPM)

Description

Scanning Probe Microscopy (SPM) is a branch of microscopy that forms images of surfaces using a physical probe that scans the specimen. An image of the surface is obtained by mechanically moving the probe in a raster scan of the specimen, line by line, and recording the probe-surface interaction as a function of position.

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  1. Scanning Probe Microscopy: "Feeling" What You Can't See at the Nanometer Scale

    Teaching Materials | 21 Jan 2020 | Contributor(s):: Sandrine Martin, NNCI Nano

    Scanning probe microscopes are important tools that allow researchers to examine nanoscale objects and materials. In this lesson, students simulate the function of a scanning probe microscope.This activity works best in groups of 3 students. Scanning Probe Microscopes (SPMs) of various types...

  2. Modeling Sanning Probe Microscopes (SPM)

    Teaching Materials | 06 Jan 2020 | Contributor(s):: Woodward Maxwell, NNCI Nano

    The Modeling Scanning Probe Microscopes (SPM) lab is designed to show students the principles of how a Scanning Probe Microscope works and how mapping on a smaller scale provides a more detailed view of a surface. Students will use a conductivity apparatus to model the mapping behavior of an...

  3. Operational Overview of the Veeco Innova Scanning Probe Microscope (SPM)

    Online Presentations | 13 Oct 2018 | Contributor(s):: Sebastien Maeder, NACK Network

  4. Advanced Scanning Probe Microscopy I

    Online Presentations | 01 Oct 2018 | Contributor(s):: Sebastien Maeder, NACK Network

    OutlinePart 1: This LectureOverview of Scanning Probe TechniquesScanning Tunneling MicroscopyAtomic Force MicroscopyHardware and ComponentsTip/Sample InteractionsPart 2: Can be viewed hereCommon Modes of OperationPitfalls and Image ArtifactsExample of Instrument Operation

  5. MATLAB-based blind tip reconstruction algorithms

    Downloads | 01 Aug 2014 | Contributor(s):: Erin Flater, Charles Clifford

    We are making available for download our MATLAB-based blind tip reconstruction algorithms. These algorithms are based on the code published in J. Villarrubia, "Algorithms for Scanned Probe Microscope Image Simulation, Surface Reconstruction, and Tip Estimation", Journal of Research...

  6. Corrosion Mechanisms in Magnetic Recording Media

    Presentation Materials | 29 Jul 2013 | Contributor(s):: Brian Demczyk

    This presentation describes the corrosion process in longitudinal and perpendicular recording media, based upon electron and scanning probe microscopic analysis.

  7. Atomic Force Microscope Investigations of Lubrication Layers

    Presentation Materials | 26 Nov 2012 | Contributor(s):: Brian Demczyk

    This presentation discusses the characterization of hard disk lubrication layers by phase contrast atomic force microscopy.

  8. Nanoscale Dimensions in Hard Disk Media

    Presentation Materials | 27 Sep 2012 | Contributor(s):: Brian Demczyk

    This presentation examines the relationship of longidudinal hard disk media nanostructure,lubricant distribution and surface nanoroughness to disk contact to flying time transition and lubricant thickness to data zone takeoff. Also included is a model of disk wear.

  9. Chemically Enhanced Carbon-Based Nanomaterials and Devices

    Online Presentations | 09 Nov 2010 | Contributor(s):: Mark Hersam

    Carbon-based nanomaterials have attracted significant attention due to their potential to enable and/or improve applications such as transistors, transparent conductors, solar cells, batteries, and biosensors. This talk will delineate chemical strategies for enhancing the electronic and optical...

  10. ECET 499N Lecture 12: Scanning Probe Microscopy Applications (in Neuroscience and Beyond)

    Online Presentations | 12 Apr 2010 | Contributor(s):: Helen McNally

  11. ECET 499N Lecture 7: Scanning Probe Microscopy II

    Online Presentations | 08 Mar 2010 | Contributor(s):: Helen McNally

  12. ECET 499N Lecture 6: Scanning Probe Microscopy I

    Online Presentations | 19 Feb 2010 | Contributor(s):: Helen McNally

  13. ME 597 Lecture 26: Scanning Probe Nanolithography

    Online Presentations | 02 Dec 2009 | Contributor(s):: Ron Reifenberger

    Topics:STM – early workArranging atoms with a tipLocal Oxidation Lithography (Electrochemical)Dip Pen LithographyNanografting

  14. Metal Oxide Nanowires as Gas Sensing Elements: from Basic Research to Real World Applications

    Online Presentations | 21 Sep 2009 | Contributor(s):: andrei kolmakov

    Quasi 1-D metal oxide single crystal chemiresistors are close to occupy their specific niche in the real world of solid state sensorics. Potentially, the major advantage of this kind of sensors with respect to available granular thin film sensors will be their size and stable, reproducible and...

  15. ECET 499N: Introduction to Nanotechnology

    Courses | 30 Mar 2009 | Contributor(s):: Helen McNally

    An introduction to the emerging area of nanotechnology will be studied. The primary focus will be on the technologies of nanotechnology, with specific emphasis on electronics and electrical measurements. Instruments and techniques used in nanotechnology will be described and explored which...

  16. So What do Biologist, Biotechnologists & Pharmaceutical Scientist Want With an AFM/SPM Anyway?

    Online Presentations | 11 Sep 2008 | Contributor(s):: Kunal Bose

  17. BNC Research Review: Carbon Nanotubes as Nucleic Acid Carriers

    Online Presentations | 04 Jun 2008 | Contributor(s):: Don Bergstrom

    This presentation is part of a collection of presentations describing the projects, people, and capabilities enhanced by research performed in the Birck Center, and a look at plans for the upcoming year.

  18. SPMW Scanning Impedance Microscopy: probing local electronic structure and transport anomalies

    Online Presentations | 05 Jan 2007 | Contributor(s):: dawn bonnell

    Multiple modulation SPM is a general term for a strategy that extracts information about a surface or nanostructure by combining various signals on samples and tips, using multiple frequencies to distinguish them and accessing multiple harmonics in detection. In addition to the usual conductance,...

  19. SPMW A fresh look to amplitude-modulation AFM: Force minimization, interaction measurement, and the quest for high resolution

    Online Presentations | 05 Jan 2007 | Contributor(s):: Udo D. Schwarz

    Frequency modulation atomic force microscopy (FM-AFM) has been able to deliver high-resolution atomic-scale images in ultrahigh vacuum for over one decade. In addition, there have been recent reports where atomic resolution has been achieved in air and liquids using FM-AFM [1]. Achieving...

  20. Orbital Mediated Tunneling in a New Unimolecular Rectifier

    Online Presentations | 25 May 2007 | Contributor(s):: Robert Metzger, NCN at Northwestern University

    In 1997 we showed that hexadecylquinolinium tricyanoquinodimethanide is a unimolecular rectifier, by scanning tunneling microscopy and also as a Langmuir-Blodgett (LB) monolayer, sandwiched between Al electrodes. We have now seen rectification in a new molecule: this rectification can be followed...