Paul Hansma Research Group

        Department of Physics, UCSB


Instrument Development

Two of the instruments we are currently developing are featured on this website:

1. Atomic Force Microscopes (AFMs), which have been our specialty for twenty years, especially AFMs for biological applications.

2. Mechanical testers of bone that operate to image bone fracture processes with real-time imaging technologies - high-speed photography for micrometric fracture processes, and Atomic Force Microscopy to image nanometric fracture processes.