LEGO® Education SPIKETM Prime-based Atomic Force Microscope for Science Education

초록

An atomic force microscope (AFM) is a powerful analytical tool for many fields of science and engineering. Despite its usefulness, the actual instrument is highly technical and expensive, rendering it inaccessible to a majority of practitioners in science and engineering education. Growing curiosity of students through the hands-on learning method is appealing to education managers. Adoption of LEGO® or similar educational kits into a school environment can not only fascinate the interests of students for learning but also resolve the cost problems. Our conceptual AFM system constructed with LEGO® Education SPIKETM Prime kit is very much suitable for explaining the principles behind the workings of an AFM while promoting students interests in experimental aspects of scientific instrumentation. © 2023 The Korean Physical Society. All rights reserved.

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