Scanning Probe Microscopy, SPM AFM Nano Web Resources

Historical

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1986

The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer for their design of the scanning tunneling microscope. Learn more about the development of the technology and the lives of the inventors.

From: The Nobel Foundation
Link: The Nobel Prize in Physics 1986

Scanning Tunneling Microscopy from Birth to Adolescence

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

Link: Scanning Tunneling Microscopy from Birth to Adolescence

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1986

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physics by one half to Professor. Ernst Ruska, Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin, Federal Republic of Germany, for his fundamental work in electron optics, and for the design of the first electron microscope and the other half, jointly to Dr Gerd Binnig and Dr Heinrich Rohrer, IBM Research Laboratory, Zurich, Switzerland, for their design of the scanning tunnelling microscope.

Link: The Nobel Prize in Physics 1986

Scanning Electron Microscopy 1928-1965

This article gives an account of the origins of the scanning electron microscope (SEM) and traces its development up to 1965 when the first SEM was marketed by the Cambridge Instrument Company. The survey concentrates on the SEM, as distinct from the microanalytical electron probe instruments that were also being developed during this period.

Link: Scanning Electron Microscopy 1928-1965

Image Galleries

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.

Link: IBM's SPM Image Gallery

The IAP/TU Wien STM Gallery

Link: The IAP/TU Wien STM Gallery

AFM Images

From: Agilent Technologies - AFM
Link: AFM Images

Introductions and Briefs

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

Link: Theory and Simulation of SPM

Scanning Probe Microscope Basics

A detailed interactive animation that illustrate the basics of imaging in the Atomic Force Microscope.

Link: Scanning Probe Microscope Basics

Magnetic Resonance Force Microscopy

Introduction to magnetic resonance force microscopy, is a massively scaled-down version of MRI.

Link: Magnetic Resonance Force Microscopy

Investigations

Moving molecules at room temperature

The demonstration that individual molecules can be moved and precisely positioned on a surface by means of a scanning tunneling microscope (STM), without lowering the temperature to near absolute zero, represents a key step on the road to creating new atomic and molecular structures .

Link: Moving molecules at room temperature

Technical Overviews