Announcing the B-3 AFM!
Empower students to explore cutting-edge nanotechnology research
Transform your nanotechnology curriculum into an immersive laboratory science program. The new B-3 AFM continues AFMWorkshop’s ground-breaking tradition of providing an affordable, research-grade educational AFM.
Hands-on access to an AFM that's not a "toy" will turn abstract concepts into tangible research experience in physics, chemistry and life sciences. Ideal for educating students on the theory, operation, and applications of an atomic force microscope.
- "Plug and play" - Installation is as easy as setting the unit on a sturdy table, plugging it into an electric socket and attaching a USB to the control computer.
- Benchtop - enclosed in its own vibration isolation cabinet, high-quality scans can be achieved in a small footprint on most any lab bench.
- Powerful analysis software - Includes the full featured and AFMControl software package used in our advanced products.
- High Quality Video optical microscope and digital camera software - 5 MP CMOS video camera with 16 levels of digital zoom enables locating features on sample surfaces, facilitates probe approach and alignment.
B-3 AFM 20 X 20 micron image of a DVD disc presented in color scale
B-3 AFM 5 X 5 micron image - addition of topographic and error signal
AFMWorkshop's 15 Years Yield Over 625 Publications for Our Customers
AFMWorkshop recently released its latest customer publications list.
Spanning across an amazing array of research areas, academic institutions and geographic locations, over 626 publications have been released utilizing atomic force microscopes from AFMWorkshop.
Results like these continue to prove AFMWorkshop’s founding theory – A High-quality atomic force microscope doesn’t have to break your lab’s budget.
Affordable and accessible atomic force microscopes are growing the number of researchers and valuable results.
MIT's Materials Research Laboratory achieved another publication in Nature in May, 2025. Utilizing an HR-2D AFM from AFMWorkshop and other techniques, Qian Song and MIT colleagues Connor Occhialini, Batyr Ilyas, Emre Ergeçen, Nuh Gedik, Riccardo Comin, along with Rafael Fernandes from Univ of IL Urbana-Champaign, and collaborators from other institutions, demonstrated a new form of magnetism - termed “p-wave magnetism" - that could one day be used to build faster, denser, and less power-hungry “spintronic” memory chips.. (MIT News)
AFMWorkshop's Most Popular AFM Products
All AFM workshop Atomic Force Microscope products measure images for industry, research and education applications. Below are our two most popular models.
AFMWorkshop Funding for Conference Presentations
AFMWorkshop’s customers are invited to apply for financial support toward presenting the results of their AFM enabled research at local, regional, national and international conferences. Grants up to $1,000 are available.
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