Bruker Catalyst AFM

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Last updated: Jan 05, 2023 by Joon Hyeong Park

2024-12-20 to 2025-01-02: Reduced Holiday Operations

Dear Birck Research Community,

The Purdue winter recess begins effective Friday afternoon December 20th and concludes Thursday morning, January 2. The university is officially closed during this time. As we have done in past years, the Birck Nanotechnology Center will remain available for research but will be unstaffed and hazardous gasses will be unavailable. Lab work may otherwise proceed, though any fume hood work must be done with someone else present in the same laboratory or cleanroom bay (the "buddy" system). Click the link above to get more detail about equipment conditions and rules.


Refer to the Material and Process Compatibility page for information on materials compatible with this tool.
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iLab Name: Bruker Catalyst AFM
iLab Kiosk: BRK Metrology Core
FIC: Helen McNally
Owner: Joon Park
Location: BRK 1265
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Overview

General Description

The BioScope Catalyst Life Science AFM has been designed from top to bottom to make it easier to realize the benefits of combining atomic force microscopy and light microscopy.

Specifications

  • X/Y range: 150 microns
  • Z range: 23 microns 
  • XY sample stage: motorized stage with 10 x 10 mm range, includes magnetic sample clamps for 1x 3in slides, 25mm coverslips, 35 and 60mm plastic petri dishes, and 50mm glass bottom petri dishes.
  • Height noise: <0.1nm RMS (air); <0.2nm RMS (fluid)
  • Force noise: thermally-limited, PicoForce-quality force measurements, <10pN RMS for cantilever with k=20pN/nm
  • Inverted optical microscopes: Olympus IX71
  • AFM controller: NanoScope V

Sample Requirements and Preparation


Standard Operating Procedure


Questions & Troubleshooting



References

Bruker Catalyst AFM User's Guide (Internal Resource)

Bruker Catalyst AFM Experiment Guide (Internal Resource)

Measuring the Elastic Properties of Living Cells with Atomic Force Microscopy Indentation by JL MacKay and S Kumar (2013) (Internal Resource)

Bruker(prev. Veeco) Catalyst introduction: https://youtu.be/VS7o6JIqJAM, https://youtu.be/fFkr3RTr-G0
Catalyst AFM training video from Western Washington University
   1. AFM demo/instrument: https://youtu.be/Jcze3sMc4Q4
   2. AFM demo/software: https://youtu.be/I7jbC8kxwZA
   3. Theory and background: https://youtu.be/VWDS-PiKOL8
   4. Operation: https://youtu.be/2qZO-aXjW18