From 7307d847edacdac1696b9e3ab54cc5357c93377d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "W. Trevor King" Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2012 10:21:13 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Add AFM/STM hardware links to the open source force spect. post. --- posts/Open_source_force_spectroscopy.mdwn | 48 +++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 48 insertions(+) diff --git a/posts/Open_source_force_spectroscopy.mdwn b/posts/Open_source_force_spectroscopy.mdwn index 909c5a6..0bc5c04 100644 --- a/posts/Open_source_force_spectroscopy.mdwn +++ b/posts/Open_source_force_spectroscopy.mdwn @@ -112,6 +112,40 @@ NanoScope software by impersonating a mouse-wielding user (like code for details. There is also [support for automatic velocity clamp analysis][refolding-vclamp]. +The official paper for the project is by [Aioanei][]. The earlier +paper by [Materassi][] may be related, but Aioanei doesn't cite it in +his paper, and Materassi doesn't give a URL for his code. + +Hardware +======== + +Nice software doesn't do you much good if you don't have the hardware +to control. There are a number of quasi-open hardware solutions for +building your own AFM (and other types of scanning probe microscopes). +There's [a good list on opencircuits][opencircuits]. Interesting +projects include: + +* Glenn Durden's [STM][GD] (1992–1998) +* Jim Rice's [Homebrew STM][JR] (1995) +* The Peddie School's [STM Project][PS] (1997–2002) +* Jürgen Müller's [home-built STMs][JM] (1999–2006) +* John D. Alexander's [STM Project][JDA] (2000–2003) +* The Münster Interface Physics Group's [SXM Project][MIPG] (free + except for commercial use, 2000–2005). +* Joseph Gatt's [Amateur STM][JG] (2003) +* Maxim Shusteff's [AFM for the instructional laboratory][MS] (2006) +* Dominik, Ivan, and Sandro's [STM-DIY project][DIS] (2009) + +Other software +============== + +The [Gnome X Scanning Miscroscopy (GXSM)][GXSM] project provides GPL +software to perform standard SPM imaging. The list of supported +hardware is currently limited to the SignalRanger series by SoftdB, +via GXSM-specific kernel modules like `sranger-mk23-dkms`. There is +an obsolete [[Comedi]] driver for GXSM that Percy Zahl wrote back in +1999, but [it has been deprecated][issue1649579] since at least 2007. + [fs_kit]: http://fskit.blogspot.com/ [fs_kit_paper]: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2818.2005.01478.x [wxWidgets]: http://www.wxwidgets.org/ @@ -122,6 +156,20 @@ analysis][refolding-vclamp]. [refolding_paper]: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btq663 [Selenium]: http://seleniumhq.org/ [refolding-vclamp]: http://code.google.com/p/refolding/wiki/BatchApproachRetractionAnalysis +[Aioanei]: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btq663 +[Materassi]: http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3194046 +[opencircuits]: http://www.opencircuits.com/Atomic_microscope +[GD]: http://web.archive.org/web/20010810000325/http://nemesis.com.au/alfa/mystm.htm +[JR]: http://web.archive.org/web/20010210003357/http://atom.snu.ac.kr/stmwebpage.html +[PS]: http://web.archive.org/web/20021219052018/http://www.peddie.k12.nj.us/Research/STMProject/e.html +[JM]: http://www.e-basteln.de/ +[JDA]: http://www.geocities.com/spm_stm/Project.html +[MIPG]: http://sxm4.uni-muenster.de/ +[JG]: http://www.angelfire.com/electronic2/spm/ +[MS]: http://www.media.mit.edu/nanoscale/courses/AFMsite/ +[DIS]: http://www.stm-diy.ch/ +[GXSM]: http://gxsm.sourceforge.net/ +[issue1649579]: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=1649579&group_id=12992&atid=479639 [[!tag tags/programming]] [[!tag tags/theory]] -- 2.26.2