Flying Over Atoms CD-ROM
John R. Markham Laconia High School, Rosendale, WI 54974
Note:	Order Item Number: SP-19 Ordering Information
Flying Over Atoms is a CD-ROM for Mac OS and Windows that provides tools for teaching about atoms and solid surfaces in an introductory chemistry course. Flying Over Atoms introduces and stimulates interest in atomic surfaces and current methods for imaging at the atomic scale. A clean silicon surface that was imaged at a negative sample bias. In other words, the microscope was probing the filled states. Flying Over Atoms uses Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM) data and the software program Vistapro, published by Rom Tech, Inc. (not provided) to allow students to create QuickTime movies of atomic landscapes. Several sample movies created using Vistapro by the author and his students at Laconia High School are provided on the CD as well as an introduction to scanning tunneling microscopy, a lesson plan , and STM images and data files. Contents Flying Over Atoms includes: An introduction to scanning tunneling microscopy STM images in Photoshop, TIFF, and JPEG format QuickTime movies of explorations of the surfaces A lesson plan that includes everything you need to know to get your students started flying over atoms using Vistapro Data files from STM experiments for use with Vistapro Hardware and Software Requirements Computer  CPU RAM Drives Graphics System Software Software Included  Software  Not Included  Mac OS compatible   68030 or greater or Power Macintosh  16 MB  Hard disk,  2 x CD-ROM   256 colors, 640  x 480  System 7 or later  QuickTime, Acrobat Reader WWW Browser, Vistapro (optional) Windows compatible  80386 or higher or Pentium  12 MB   Hard disk, 2 x CD-ROM 256 colors, 640  x 480, SVGA   Windows 98/95 or Windows 3.1 QuickTime, Acrobat Reader  WWW Browser, Vistapro (optional) Acknowledgement Bob Hamers of the University of WisconsinÐMadison Department of Chemistry was very helpful to the author during the development of Flying Over Atoms. Members of his research group including Harry Chen, Ernie Frank, and Steve Higgins contributed STM data and images. The introduction to STM included in Flying Over Atoms was written by Ernie Frank. John Hinkley, author of Vistapro, wrote a translation utility that allowed translation of RAW STM data into the DEM format that Vistapro requires. The students of Laconia High School, past and present, helped test and work the bugs out of Flying Over Atoms. QuickTime movies created by some of these students are included in Flying Over Atoms. Availability Available: Now

First Published: February 1998

Citation: Markham, J. R. Flying Over Atoms CD-ROM J. Chem. Educ. Software SP19

Keywords: Lecture Aid; Computer Room; Simulation; High School; General; Solid state; STM; Surface science

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