Here are the images I used (and use) for my presentations and my thesis report. These images are released under the creative commons license by-sa . You can use, modify and redistribute them, but under the same conditions and with author citation.
If you want to cite this work, please do it as follows :
Roduit, C. "AFM figures" 2010, www.freesbi.ch, Creative Commons Attribution.
These image are made with inkscape , a very powerfull software to make figures, shemas and posters. Some of these figures were inspired from Sandor Kasas original work.

Download the contact mode in svg.

Download the tapping mode in svg.

Download the Force mode in svg.

Download the AFM schema in svg.

Download the AFM mounted on inverted optical microscope schema in svg.

Download the force distance curve in svg.

Download the detailed protein-protein interaction in svg.

Download the small protein-protein interaction in svg.

Download the stiffness effect on force-distance curve in svg.