Joined: 16 Mar 2004 |Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 2:44 pm Post
subject: Purdue Offer Online Simulation Tools for Atomic Force
Micros |Purdue University is operating a virtual environment
that enables scientists and engineers to interpret raw data
collected with dynamic atomic force microscopes. The online
tools, believed to be the first of their kind for the
instruments, represent a research trend, with tools for other
applications also being developed, said Arvind Raman, a Purdue
professor of mechanical engineering. "We will see more and more
of this sort of thing for many other types of instruments that
are being used around the world," he said. "This allows
researchers to spend more time doing research and less time and
money developing simulations." More than 300 researchers from
around the world have used the "virtual environment for dynamic
atomic force microscopy," or VEDA, since it went online about a
year ago. The virtual environment is described in a research
article featured as a cover story in the Jun