Atomic Force Microscopy at Stanford's Shared Facilities

 

There are multiple AFM instruments housed at our shared facilities across nano@stanford and the Cell Science Imaging Facility. All of the instruments are capable of performing standard topography measurements but excel in different applications. Below is an overview of the AFM instruments and capabilities at the Stanford's Shared Facilities. Our intake form linked above under "Need training on AFM?" will guide you to a recommended instrument based on your experimental needs.

Easy-to-use AFMs in air environments

Park NX-10 | A workhorse AFM with easy navigation and motorized stage for facile topography measurements, lithography, and electrical lift modes. 
Park NX-10 website
Facility | nano@stanford
Location | Deep Lab Room B152, Education Hub

Park FX-40 | A highly automated instrument with automated laser alignment, autofocus, and programmable navigation for sequential measurements. This instrument is also equipped with a full suite of electrical modes, lithography, photocurrent mapping, high voltage capabilities, and a heating stage. 
FX-40 website.
Facility | nano@stanford
Location | Deep Lab Room B111

Bruker Dimension Icon | A large sample AFM accommodating 6” wafers capable of lithography, nanomechanical measurements, and electrical measurements. Recommended for performing nanomechanical measurements in air. 
Bruker Icon website.
Facility | nano@stanford 
Location | Deep Lab Room B111A

AFMs with controlled environments and specialized 
electrical & thermal measurements

Asylum Cypher ES | An AFM for small samples (15mm diameter, 5 mm height) with smaller scan sizes offering high resolution and a electrical modes with high voltage capabilities. The instrument has a temperature controller to maintain the system at constant temperature to minimize drift and a hermetically sealed sample chamber for environmental control. The Cypher ES also has photothermal acuation and is great for liquid measurements. 
Asylum Cypher ES AFM website. 
Facility | nano@stanford 
Location | Deep Lab, Room B111A

 


Asylum MFP-3D | A versatile AFM with manual controls that can be used in standard enclosure or in an environmental box that is capable of reaching 10s ppm O2 for oxygen sensitive samples. This instrument supports electrical modes, can measure thermal conductivity, has liquid compatibility, a sample heater, and probe station for three-point measurements. This instrument is great for performing customized measurements; users have built custom stretching stages and even performed electrochemical measurements on the MFP-3D.
Asylum MFP-3D AFM website.
Facility | nano@stanford 
Location | Allen 151, Ocean Room

 

AFMs with Chemical Spectroscopy

Bruker Dimension IconIR | A large sample AFM accommodating 4” wafers with atomic force microscopy infrared spectroscopy (AFM-IR) to measure nanoscale chemistry that correlates with Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FT-IR). The IconIR is able to perform the same modes as the Bruker Dimension Icon high resolution imaging, nanomechanical measurements, and electrical measurements with the addition of sample heating and nanoDMA for mechanical measurements. 
Bruker Dimension IconIR website.
Facility | nano@stanford
Location | Deep Lab, Room B111

 

Horiba AIST-NT Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy | An AFM coupled to the Horiba LabRAM Confocal Microscope that enables Tip Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy. Capabilities also include correlative conductive measurements and Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM). 
Horiba LabRAM website.
Facility | nano@stanford 
Location | Deep Lab, Room B111

AFMs integrated with optical microscopes & optimized for liquid measurements

Please note these instruments are housed in the Stanford Cell Science Imaging Facility

JPK NanoWizard V BioAFM | An AFM integrated with an inverted optical wide-field fluorescence microscope (Zeiss AxioObserver) compatible with Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET). This instrument excels at liquid imaging and performing mechanical measurements of soft, biological samples or if you need the optical path of the inverted microscope. It has the unique capability of measuring sticky samples with an extended range of  200um X, Y, and Z and has a fast scanning. 
JPK NanoWizard V website.
Facility | Cell Science Imaging Facility
Location | Shriram 023

 

Bruker BioScope Resolve BioAFM | An AFM integrated with a laser scanning confocal microscope (Zeiss LSM900) for specialized measurements that require high resolution fluorescence microscopy. It is ideal for imaging in liquids and measuring biological samples. 
Bruker BioScope Resolve website.
Facility | Cell Science Imaging Facility
Location | Shriram 023