Nano-Education Resources

Common Atomic Force Microscopy Education Publications

Because there is no AFM Education focused publication, articles on AFM Education are spread across many publications. Like AFM itself, the publications cross multiple disciplines, and articles are most commonly found in publications about the education of: NanoScience or Chemistry. There are also many articles published in other publications.

• Journal of Nano Education
• Journal of Chemical Education
• IEEE Transactions on Education

Why Teach AFM?

• Atomic Force Microscopy has continued to be a platform for innovation and research through its 30 years of use in jobs ranging from engineering to industry to academic research.
• The virtually limitless sample scope of the AFM makes it a robust and useful tool which promises a future that utilizes the Atomic Force Microscope to accomplish research tasks quickly and efficiently.
• After completing a full credit course in Atomic Force Microscopy, it immediately raises the college level student into an upper echelon of the AFM workforce.
• AFM leads to additional opportunities by increasing the marketability of students in both industry and in college laboratories.
• Students are trained to be more creative and have the ability and intuition to solve problems under time constraint.
• AFM at the high school and primary school grade levels also has benefits; it has been shown to pique curiosity in students as they begin to witness the surface of a material appearing before their eyes.
• AFM ultimately pushes students to pursue careers in the growing and lucrative field of nanotechnology.

University Course Offerings

• Northwestern - Nanolithography
  
• Northwestern - Experiments in Micro- and Nanoscience and Engineering
  
• Georgia Tech - Scanned Probe Techniques
  
• University of Chicago - Nanoscale Materials
  
• Stanford - Nanocharacterization Laboratory
  
• Stanford - Imaging from the Atom to the Universe
  
• Stanford - Intro to Force Spectroscopy
  
• UCLA - Biological Microscopy
  
• UCLA - Optics and Microscopy
  
• Cornell - Physical Chemistry of Proteins
  
• Cornell - Imaging for Biomedical Research
  
• Cornell - Intro to Nanoscience
  
• Harvard - Intro to Microscopy
  
• Princeton - Characterization of Materials
  
• MIT - Instrumentation and Measurement
  
• MIT - Nanostructure Fabrication
  
• MIT - Applied Quantum Statistical Physics
  
• MIT - Morphology of Polymers
  
• MIT - Experimental Mechanics of Soft Condensed Matter
  
• MIT - Micro/Nano Engineering Lab
  
• MIT - Mechanical Behavior of Materials