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SUMMARY:MechE Colloquium: The “Mechanical Microscope” – Pushing the 
 Envelope of Atomic Force Microscopy with Mechatronics
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Georg E. Fantner\, STI\, Laboratory for Bio- and Nano-In
 strumentation\; EPFL\nAbstract: Among all types of microscopy\, Atomic Fo
 rce Microscopy (AFM) arguably interacts most directly with the sample. Thr
 ough mechanical contact at the nanoscale\, high resolution topographic ima
 ges\, mechanical-\, electrical-\, and magnetic-properties can be measured 
 with incredible precision.  This mechanical nature of the interaction\, h
 owever\, also governs the limitations of AFM in terms of resolution\, spee
 d\, and robustness of operation. Therefore\, improving the performance of 
 AFM inherently requires improvements in mechanical engineering and mechatr
 onics.  In this presentation\, I will show how we use new concepts in mec
 hanical design\, materials science\, microfabrication and controls enginee
 ring to increase the AFM imaging speed by two orders of magnitude\, extrac
 t multiparametric information from the samples\, and develop new 3D imagin
 g modalities. I will showcase the capabilities of this next generation ato
 mic force microscopy with applications from nanoscale biology and material
 s science.\n\nBiography: Prof. Georg E. Fantner received his MS degree fr
 om the University of Technology Graz in 2003\, and his PhD degree from UC 
 Santa Barbara in 2006. After a Postdoc in the biomolecular materials lab a
 t the Massachusetts Institute of Technology\, he joined the École Polytec
 hnique Fédéral de Lausanne in 2010. He leads the laboratory for bio- and
  nano-instrumentation in the institute for bioengineering. His research\, 
 focusses on the development of new technologies to measure and manipulate 
 nanoscale structures in general\, and the development of atomic force micr
 oscopy instrumentation in particular. He applies these instruments to answ
 er questions in a variety of fields ranging from materials science and nan
 otechnology to biology and life science. His interdisciplinary work has be
 en published in many high impact journals such as Nature\, Nature Material
 s\, Nature Physics\, Nature Nanotechnology\, Nature Cell biology\, Nature 
 Microbiology\, Nature Communications\, Nano Letters\, and Science\, as wel
 l as featured in a number of popular science- and general-interest magazin
 es. He serves as co- Editor-In -Chief for the journal Microsystem Technolo
 gies (Springer/Nature) and as scanning probe microscopy editor for Microsc
 opy and Microanalysis. Prof. Fantner hold several patents in the field of 
 nanotechnology and is the co-founder of two nanotechnology companies. Rece
 ntly he has become active in the field of open hardware\, where he explore
 s new avenues to foster free academic exchange of knowledge\, particularly
  for the development of highly sophisticated custom instruments. He serves
  as the president of the EPFL open science strategic committee and the ETH
 -domain open research data steering committee.
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