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Undergraduate Student Designs Atomic Force Microscope
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Kirsten Bonson presented the microscope she designed in a scientific meeting.

Credit: Professor R. L. Headrick, University of Vermont
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State: Vermont

Kirsten Bonson, an undergraduate student at the University of Vermont (UVM), has designed an atomic force microscope under the guidance of professor Randall Headrick. This inexpensive microscopy, similar to its much more expensive cousins used in research and development, uses a highly sensitive force sensor to image materials surfaces at the atomic scale. The microscope is now used in the laboratory session of a recently developed nanoscience class taken by UVM freshmen.

The design and results of the project were presented at the fall 2005 joint meeting of the New-England Sections of the American Physical Society and American Association of Physics Teachers, held in Burlington, VT.


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