Choosing a type of a sample material
Data processing
Characteristic length Classical theory or quantum theory? Geometry optimizing or molecular dynamics? Finishing the solver selection


SPM simulator: organic compounds (011a)

In this page, we recommend you CG and CG-RISM as solvers that simulate AFM images of organic compounds under angstrom scale according to the geometry optimizing that is classified as the classical theory.
If you perform simulations in vacuume or air environment, please use the CG solver.
If you perform simulations in liquid environment, please use the CG-RISM solver.

In this page, we suppose that the sample material is an organic compound. However, we can apply a method discussed here to high polymers, soft matters, metals, semiconductors, and non-organic compounds, as well.

We recommend you the following solvers:

CG: the geometry optimizing AFM image simulator

CG-RISM: the AFM simulator for atomic scale in liquid environment


If you want to perform simulations in vacuum environment, please use the CG. By contrast, if you want to perform simulations in liquid environment, please use the CG-RISM.

Advantages of the CG and the CG-RISM are as follows:

Estimating the molecular configuration that is stabel with respect to the total energy, the CG and the CG-RISM optimize the structure of molecules and obtain their AFM image.

The CG and the CG-RISM provide frequency shift images of the non-contact AFM under molecular scale in vacuum and liquid environment.

The CG and the CG-RISM can calculate the energy curve representing the variation of the potential energy and the force curve (the force-distance plot) for the system consisting of the tip and the sample.

The CG and the CG-RISM can simulate non-contact AFM images with the following two modes: (1) the constant height mode where the height of the tip is fixed and (2) the constant force mode where the force that the tip feels is fixed.

To prepare structural data of the tip and the sample material, please refer to the following page:

SetModel, ChemSketch: software for generating structural data of tips and sample materials


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