Nano goes to school: A teaching model of the atomic force microscope

Physics Education

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 37-45

  Planinšič, Gorazd ^a   Kovač, Janez ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

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EID: 37249048037     PISSN: 00319120     EISSN: 13616552     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9120/43/01/002     Document Type: Review

References (7)

1. Shand H and Wetter K K 2006 Shrinking science: an introduction to nanotechnology State of the World 2006, A Worldwatch Institute Report on Progress Toward a Sustainable Society (New York: W W Norton) p 78
2. Gyalog T 2007 Nanoscience education in Europe Europhys. News 38 13 also available online at http://www.europhysicsnews.org
3. Home page of Institute for Physics Teachers, Centre for Nanoscale Systems, Cornel University http://www.cns.cornell.edu/cipt/index.html see 'Resources' for useful material for teachers!
4. Drexler K E 2005 Productive nanosystems: the physics of molecular fabrication Phys. Educ. 40 339
5. Mironov V L 2004 Fundamentals of the scanning probe microscopy, the Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of physics of microstructures (Nizhniy Novgorod 2004) also available online at http://www.nanotech-america.com/ dmdocuments/mironov_book_en.pdf
6. West Hill Biological Resources, Inc. www.westhillbio.com (see also [4] for laboratory exercise with AFM kit)
7. Program ImageJ for analysing digital images can be downloaded from http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/