🍿Don't miss the interview with Brian Gerardot and our students at @uam.es @cienciasuam.bsky.social
Now available on our YouTube channel 🎥
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🍿Don't miss the interview with Brian Gerardot and our students at @uam.es @cienciasuam.bsky.social
Now available on our YouTube channel 🎥
youtu.be/jZM_9Ryp1Xw
📢Seminar this Friday March 6 at 12h, Faculty of Science, Seminar Room Module 5 @cienciasuam.bsky.social .
Sanchar Sharma @uam.es will talk about Quantum State Generation and Measurement of Magnons. See you there! 👇
www.ifimac.uam.es/ifimac-semin...
🗞️NEWS! Descubren respuesta magnética inesperada en contactos atómicos de oro y plata.
@cienciasuam.bsky.social @apsphysics.bsky.social
¡No te lo pierdas!
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Julio Gómez Herrero soon moved from the STM and joined efforts with Colchero, being the origin of the use and development of AFM at the UAM @cienciasuam.bsky.social
He had completed a PhD in Switzerland working on AFM, and he pushed to combine the UAM’s STM control electronics and software with the design and assembly of AFMs.
With the know-how acquired from STM, Jaime Colchero (now at the Universidad de Murcia) came to Arturo Baró’s lab at the UAM in 1994 as a postdoc.
In 2023, we had the pleassure to host Christoph Gerber, one of its inventors, and also one of the people who installed the first STM at the UAM @cienciasuam.bsky.social
All in all, forty years after its invention, the AFM has become a standard tool in nanotechnology labs, with its development still ongoing.
... like motor proteins walking along tracks, or multimodal imaging, enabling the improvement of material property separation.
Additional advances have been carried out over the last decades, such as non-contact AFM at low temperatures with CO tips, enabling atomic and bond-level contrast routinely, high-speed AFM, which allows imaging of dynamic biological processes...
... and eight years to reach the atomic resolution of Si(111) – this shows the greater technical challenge involved.
Despite all its capabilities, while the STM demonstrated atomic resolution of Si(111) just after its invention, it took the AFM seven years to first achieve true atomic resolution (imaging steps on a calcite crystal in water)...
This versatility was crucial for the advancement of multiple fields, from surface science, to materials and biological research applications, to name a few.
Throughout the years, the technique has evolved - it started with contact mode, then dynamic modes arrived a year later (1987), followed by the development of multiple modes along the 1990s, allowing the simultaneous measurement of a great variety of properties.
Unlike the STM, which can only work with conducting/semiconducting materials, the AFM can also image insulators.
How does it work? A sharp tip usually on a flexible cantilever scans across a sample surface while measuring tip-sample interactions (forces, force gradients…). It can operate in multiple environments: air, liquid, vacuum…
The AFM was introduced in March 1986, today 40 years ago, by Gerd Binnig, Calvin Quate, and Christoph Gerber, four years after its precursor, the scanning tunnelling microscope (STM). 🧵
📢Next #IFIMAColloquium of 2026! Juan Ignacio Cirac from Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics will talk about Quantum Simulation in the Presence of Errors.
📍Conference Room, Module 0, Science Faculty @cienciasuam.bsky.social @uam.es
Friday, 13 March, 2026, at 12h
www.ifimac.uam.es/ifimacolloqu...
🗞️NEWS! Revelan una nueva plataforma para dispositivos que combinan magnetismo y superconductividad - Advanced Materials. @cienciasuam.bsky.social ¡No te lo pierdas!
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✨Paloma Arroyo Huidobro celebrated the #11F2026 bringing light to 4 and 5-year-olds at CEIP Príncipe de Asturias! They explored the refractive index, discovered why objects bend when seen through water or glass and watched things disappear✨ #mujeryciencia #díamujeryniñaenciencia
📰Anderson’s Theorem, famously posits that superconductivity is immune to disorder. We show however that it takes only 0.02% of magnetic impurities, to strip a superconductor of its energy gap. 👇
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📢We are happy to welcome Nandini Trivedi from OhioState University. She will speak about disorder in superconductors and the superconductor to insulator quantum phase transition. Monday 03 March, 12h30, Modulo 03, Science Faculty @cienciasuam.bsky.social 👇
www.ifimac.uam.es/ifimac-semin...
📣If you missed the #IFIMAColloquium with Brian Gerardot from Heriot-Watt University about Reconfigurable Quantum Matter and Quantum Light, you can now watch it on our YouTube channel 👇 @heriotwattuni.bsky.social @cienciasuam.bsky.social @uam.es @gefes-rsef.bsky.social
youtu.be/KoJ9iXNQZrc
📢Seminar Friday Feb 27 at 12h - Faculty of Science, Seminar Room Module 5 @cienciasuam.bsky.social
Prof. Milica Todorovic from University of Turku @utu.fi will talk about Computational materials engineering with active learning. See you there!👇
www.ifimac.uam.es/ifimac-semin...
¡Con muchas ganas de ver los siguientes videos!
📢Seminar Thursday February 26 at 12h, Faculty of Science @cienciasuam.bsky.social Seminar Room Module 3.
Marc Rovirola from @ub.edu
will talk about Phonon-Driven Orbital Transport via Surface Acoustic Waves. See you there!👇
www.ifimac.uam.es/ifimac-semin...
@cienciasuam.bsky.social @uam.es @gefes-rsef.bsky.social @rsef-esp.bsky.social
📢 @bravo-abad.bsky.social , researcher at IFIMAC-UAM, has just published Inteligencia Artificial y Física: Un Viaje Compartido de Descubrimientos. Curious about how physics and AI have been shaping each other — and where they're headed? Don't miss it! 👇
www.ifimac.uam.es/libros-en-es...
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