NTUF Research Tool Inventory

Multimode AFM

The Digital Multimode AFM, operated with a Nanoscope IIIa controller, can perform the full range of scanning probe microscopic techniques including contact mode, tapping mode, phase imaging, lateral force microscopy (LFM), magnetic force microscopy (MFM), electric force microscope (EFM), nanoindenting/scratching. When equipped with a liquid cell, the Multimode AFM offers exciting new opportunities to the Life Sciences community. Capabilities include: (1) imaging surface morphology of microbial cells (bacteria, yeasts, and fungal spores) with nanometer scale lateral and atomic scale vertical resolutions under physiological conditions; and (2) measuring local physical properties such as adhesion forces and elasticity.

The Digital Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM) combined with the Nanoscope IIIa controller can perform 600 nm by 600 nm scans on conductive samples under ambient conditions with atomic resolution. It also allows measurement of current vs. applied biased voltage.

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A topographic image of fibronectin (600 nm x 600 nm x 2 nm)

A magnetic force image of a magnetic tape (5 μm x 5 μm)

An AFM image of lysozyme (500 nm x 500 nm x 20 nm)