Exploring Scanning Probe Microscopy with Mathematica

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Summary: A ready made computational lab - all your own
Review: There is a considerable body of theory behind Atomic Force Microscopy/STM. In how it works, and in the modelling of the potential energy at a surface under study. This can be a problem for those who want to use an AFM, and who might perhaps be new to the field. At the modelling level, the book shows the multitude of possible models, and their associated parameters, that can be used. This presents an obstacle. Because typically, you have to start by building those computational model code bodies from scratch, based on guidelines in books or papers.

This is especially a problem if you are an experimentalist, where your interests are not necessarily in modelling.

Sarid does the reader a huge favour. By offering not just equations, but functional code, implemented in a Mathematica framework, that you can tweak to your delight. Basically, the book and its website give you a computational lab, fully equipped.

The book also shows how Mathematica has become indispensible in research, by providing the necessary computational framework.