Following the Fall 2006 term, these videos were produced from a series of AFM tutorial sessions led by Maxim Shusteff to prepare other instructors, staff and students for the next offering of 20.309. The tutorials explore the theory and practice of using the lab AFM, which differs somewhat from stan…
Scott Manalis, Peter So, Maxim Shusteff
Tour of the AFM components; Hardware operation; Software operation; Force spectroscopy introduction
Estimating Boltzman's constant More about cantilever behavior
More about preparing and loading cantilevers
Collecting and analyzing data Comparing the 20.309 lab AFM and commercial AFM systems Overview of elastic modulus curves experiment Cantilever geometry correction factor (numerical calculation of cantilever bending)
Load cantilever and sample; determine basic features of the sample