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Zoom into a Pencil Line of Graphene with an Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) - Illustration

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Zoom into a Pencil Line of Graphene with an Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) - Illustration

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Zoom into a Pencil Line of Graphene with an Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) - Illustration
Catherine McCarthy [3]
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This illustration shows how an Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) is used to image a line of graphene made by a pencil. The scale spans ten orders of magnitude, from the microscope and pencil to the atoms that compose the scanning probe and pencil line. As the viewer zooms into the line, graphite flakes, and eventually a single layer of graphene, become visible. On the AFM, a silicon cantilever with a sharp atomic tip and a laser with a photodiode measure the up and down motion as the probe maps out the graphene sample.
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Developed for the Center for Probing the Nanoscale, an NSF NSEC at Stanford University, supported under Grant No. PHY-0830228.

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Developed for the Center for Probing the Nanoscale, an NSF NSEC at Stanford University, supported under Grant No. PHY-0830228. Graphic design by Linda Nye.

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Digital images and graphics

Nano topics: 

Fundamentals
Materials, tools, and applications

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11 and up

Content keywords: 

pencil
zoom
poster
illustration
AFM
atomic force microscope
graphite
graphene
atomic
lead

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