who developed this instrument?
Gerd Binnig
Atomic force microscopy
The AFM was invented by IBM scientists in 1985. The precursor to the AFM, the scanning tunneling microscope (STM), was developed by Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer in the early 1980s at IBM Research - Zurich, a development that earned them the 1986 Nobel Prize for Physics. Binnig invented the atomic force microscope and the first experimental implementation was made by Binnig, Quate and Gerber in 1986.
what is another lipid in the cell membrane It is a thin polar membrane made of two layers of lipid molecules besides the cell membrane, is there any other part in the cell where this bilayer is present? UNANSWERABLE what are the functions of this bilayer? It is the barrier that keeps ions, proteins and other molecules where they are needed and prevents them from diffusing into areas where they should not be what instruments are used to observe this layer? Electron microscopy and atomic force microscopy what are the main parts the second instrument consists of? Cantilever, a piezoelectric element, the sharp tip, the detector, the sample, sample stage, and an xyz drive
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Atomic force microscopy [SEP] History
The AFM was invented by IBM scientists in 1985. The precursor to the AFM, the scanning tunneling microscope (STM), was developed by Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer in the early 1980s at IBM Research - Zurich, a development that earned them the 1986 Nobel Prize for Physics. Binnig invented the atomic force microscope and the first experimental implementation was made by Binnig, Quate and Gerber in 1986. The first commercially available atomic force microscope was introduced in 1989. The AFM is one of the foremost tools for imaging, measuring, and manipulating matter at the nanoscale.