Join us as Franz Giessibl, the 2023 Innovation in Materials Characterization Award recipient, presents his talk “Atomic Force Microscopy 3.0.”

Atoms - single atoms - the building blocks of matter can be imaged by AFM with unprecedented spatial resolution, showing "dents" in their electron clouds. They can be moved around and AFM allows to measure the force that is needed to do that. Scanning tunneling microscopy and AFM can be combined in one single instrument with the qPlus sensor, a quartz cantilever that vibrates at subatomic amplitudes and holds a tip that has a single metal atom at its sharp end, sometimes terminated by an even sharper CO molecule. AFM realizes the dream of materials scientists who excel on the atomic and subatomic scale.

Franz Giessibl

University of Regensburg

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