Gerton Lab - Atomic force microscopy

A brief overview of what Jordan Gerton's lab researches. Included is a brief description of fluorescence and atomic force microscopy and the future uses of it.
http://www.physics.utah.edu/~gertonlab

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[simplepimple101]

how many times does the afm magnify something? (at its largest magnification?)

[kaggieguy]

@simplepimple101 I don't think you can say how many times it magnifies something, but the highest resolution you can get is about 5 nm. If you compare that to the wavelength of light, which is typically 500 nm, that's roughly 100 times the best optical microscope. I guess you could say that you are showing a 5 nm dot on a 1 mm computer screen, in which case the magnification would be 100,000 times.

[1BGhimire]

Nice video professor!

[sybrentc]

@HigherPlanes @1:08 that is not an image of air, it is something else (some sample), but they call it 'in air' because they did not replace the air around the sample by another gas.

[sybrentc]

@AngelofChaos6688 correct

[zuggerpest]

@eldiosdedios

yea dude hope it growessssss

[eldiosdedios]

The probes are so f'ing small, I keep dropping them with the tweezers, any tips?

[cvunit]

@kaggieguy in other words still not good enough to see my penis.

[eliberatus]

Near-Field Optical Microscopy

and you can focus over a 10nm in all that noise (vibrations) ?

When you focus on a 100nm virus, it will die or not?

[HigherPlanes]

@ 1:08, that's plain air at below ten nm?

[AngelofChaos6688]

nm= Nanomete, correct?