What are the applications of atomic force microscopy?
AFM can work in vacuum, ultra-high vacuum, gas, solution, electrochemical environment, room temperature and low temperature, so it has a wide range of applications.
In physics, atomic force microscopy can be used to study the surface morphology, surface reconstruction, surface electronic state and its dynamic process of metals and semiconductors, superconductor surface structure and charge density in electronic state layered materials, etc.
In biology, atomic force microscopy can be applied to the study of the structure and other properties of biological macromolecules, such as the observation of proteins, RNA, DNA, and even cells and viruses.
In addition, since the atomic force microscope has the characteristic of indirectly measuring the relationship between force and distance, it can also be used to measure the force between atoms in addition to its use in morphology observation.
