International Workshop on Advanced Atomic Force Microscopy Techniques

  • Date:

    March 1-2, 2010

  • Can you see or feel single atoms? - Answering this question in 1986 by Nobel Prize winners Gerd Binnig (IBM), Calvin Quate (Stanford University), and Christoph Gerber (IBM) resulted in an epoch-making invention: the atomic force microscope (AFM). AFMs can detect single atoms and molecules on surfaces and became common instruments in nano and micro technologies. AFMs can be used as well as a lithography tool or for the manipulation of atoms, molecules, and nanoparticles.

    A new laboratory of the Institut for Microstructure Technology (IMT) and the Institute for Nano Technologie (INT) on Campus Nord of KIT has been equipped with state-of-the-art AFMs dedicated to the analysis of micro and nanostructures, biolocical samples, and to research in nanotribology.

    The AFMs can be used by external users through KNMF proposals. On the occasion of the opening of the new AFM laboratory, a workshop was held on March 1-2, 2010. Over 80 participants from 12 countries discussed recent developments and results, among them Prof. Dr. Christoph Gerber, co-inventor of the AFM, who presented results from his work in life sciences. (tr/ts)

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