AFM is a key nanoscale measurement insturment that is enabling Nanotechnology developments in all disciplines of science and engineering. As a result, there is a substantial demand by students as well as professionals for AFM Education. The AFMWorkshop and the TT-AFM have considerable advantages for all aspects of AFM education.

Instrument Design – The ultimate in depth knowledge about AFM instrument design is gained at one of our one week construction workshops. Participants in the workshops build their own AFM and attend numerous workshops on AFM Theory, operation, and applications. At our workshop you will learn what components are in an AFM, how it works. Key design points, how to maximize image signal to noise, light lever design, and scanner design/construction.

AFM operation – A TT-AFM has similar design to 99% of AFM's used in research labs throughout the world. Students can use skills develop on TT-AFM to operate AFM more expensive instrumentation. Also, on a TT-AFM students can learn how to operate all of the key modes such as contact , vibrating, lateral force, and phase modes.

The AFMWorkshop offers a TT-AFM assembly workshop Attendees to this this five day workshop receive training on the theory, practice and assembly of an atomic force microscope. It is expected that students of the course have purchased the TT-AFM kit. The courses are held on an as-need basis. After constructing their own AFM Workshop attendees are better able to operate their microscopes. Further, because they know all of the details that went into the microscopes design, they are qualified to make modification and repair it.

On the “Technical” page of the AFMWorkshop web site is a book that is ideal as an introduction to AFM instrumentation, theory, operation and applications. This practical guide is free to the general public and must be downloaded and printed. In addition, “Atomic Force Microscopy” written by Dr.'s Peter Eaton and Paul West, is available from the AFM workshop. This book has all of the information in the free book but includes much more detailed discussions as well as a complete reference list. The book is published by the Oxford University Press.

AFMWorkshop customer have access to a complete library of power point presentations. The presentation include over 500 slides on subjects ranging from AFM image analysis, instrument design, quantitative AFM measurements, and AFM image artifacts. These presentations may be used for teaching courses to undergraduate and graduate students. If there is enough interest, an trained instructor from the AFMWorkshop can be hired to teach a three day course derived from these power point presentations.