Nanoeducator, FemtoScan or something else? - scanning probe microscopes in education
It was an interesting debate in last days on the wall of NanoEducation thematic group about scanning probe microscopes used in the education. What is your experience in this field? Any argument pro and con? Different instrument for the students?
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Lena! It is great, that nanoeducator has resonant mode, but this information is hidden in Internet. And nanoeducator cannot work in liquid.
Denis! FemtoScan has both opportunities. FemtoScan can work both with thin conductive wire and with commertial cantilevers.
Moreover as compared to femtoscan, NANOEDUCATOR can operate with two principal kinds of probes. Professional Si-cantilevers can be used, which provide high image quality but are not suitable for education because students crash them often. And this is rather expensive! Alternatively NANOEDUCATOR can work with tungsten wire sharpen by electrochemical etching. Such probes cost nothing, they can be prepared by students, and the preparation itself could be good lab
=) Anastasia, it seems to me that you do not like Nanoeducator) It has resonant modes.
Lena! It is cool that it works with most operations systems. Nanoeducator is very good, if you are working in air environment , but it cannot work in liquid. And It has not an open architecture for optic control. And there is not resonant mode.
Thank you, Dmitry! I absolutely agree with you about school education, but it is not so easy to implement it in school
Anastasia, are you sure that Nanoeducator (expecially II) II is a device with limited features? As I know it is a professional tool. And it received the R&D 100 Award in 2011
Dear Lena and Abid,
Education is a modern trend. It's really important to have devices for this purpose with specal features:
1. Strong mechanics
2. Manual control
3. Educational manual
It will be greate success for student, if he has a chance to do everything by himself.
The next problem is, of course, effeciency of capital investment.
Software it's the key of solving this problem.
In my opinion, FemtoScan Labs with FemtoScan Online Software is the best solution for education. See Anastasia V Bolshakova post
Lena, Nanoeducator is a device with limited features, you may use another one with similar price but with multimode. Also it is possible to equipped class only with soft and to have access to real microscope via Internet. For more options please see
http://en.nanoscopy.ru/study/obuchayushiy_kurs_szm/
and real time scanning
http://en.nanoscopy.ru/scan/
Abid, thank you for your opinion. I have some ideas about what could it be, and nanoeducator is among them
Lena,you probably heard about this nanoeducator platform http://www.ntmdt.com/device/platforma-nanoedyukator-ii-1 .
I've been working with it not for a long time, but I like it because of it's simplicity in use. It's used in some universities in India and I know a lot of positive comments.