Atomic Force Microscopy at Stanford's Shared Facilities

Filling out this intake form will guide you to a suggested instrument for your experiment. Following completion, it will send a notification to Stanford staff for hands-on instrument training. Below is a list of the operation modes available using Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM).

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.

Easy-to-use AFMs in air environments

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 | McCullough 102 (SNSF)

Bruker Dimension Icon | A large sample AFM accommodating 6” wafers capable of lithography, nanomechanical measurements, and electrical measurements. Recommended for performing torsional force microscopy and nanomechanical measurements.
Bruker Icon website.
Facility | nano@stanford (SNSF)
Location | Shriram 099

AFM capable of glovebox and liquid environments with specialized electrical and thermal measurements

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 has a full set of 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 (SNF/Allen)
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 (SNSF)
Location | Shriram 099

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 (SNSF)
Location | McCullough 105

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