We found a free AFM off the reuse list. After much effort, we're finally getting pretty good images out of it.

Handy Stuff

	A little Matlab function that does a nice job of plotting AFM images, and a C++ program for converting from the Topometrix binary image file format to the text file format.
	Links to information I've found useful for the AFM.

Images

The following images are roughly in chronological order. They don't represent the best or worst we have taken, but merely the ones I happen to have put here for one reason or another.

	This is the first successful scan we ever took. We were mostly just surprised that an AFM we got for free off the reuse list worked at all, I think... The vertical bumps are about 20nm tall.
	This was taken not too long after the scan above; it's the same aluminum surface imaged near a scratch. Gary has a 3D image of this particular scratch.
	An image of a Si calibration grid taken in contact mode.
	An image of a Si calibration grid taken in contact mode. The fine diagonal stripes are some 60hz feedthrough we haven't tracked down.
	The first non-contact image taken after the ability to move the tip up and down seperately from the sample. It's now comparitively easy to use the microscope for non-contact imaging. This image was taken using phase response and large amplitude excitation (1 volt or around 3 angstroms).
	The above image with one line replaced by the average of its neighbors.
	The same region and conditions as the above scan, but at much higher resolution. This does not show well in the thumbnail.
	A zoomed in view of the top of one of the plateaus.
	A zoomed in view of a few of the dust particles on the top of the plateau. The Z distortion is because the scanner calibration was accidentally turned off.
	The first image we got of Cobalt dots on a sample. The image has been high pass filtered. Forward pass
	The first image we got of Cobalt dots on a sample. The image has been high pass filtered. Forward pass