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Atomic force microscopy; dAFM; high-resolution; liquids; SILICON (111)-(7X7) SURFACE; CANTILEVER DYNAMICS; HIGHER HARMONICS; SI(111)7X7; ENERGY
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High-Resolution Dynamic Atomic Force Microscopy In Liquids With Different Feedback Architectures, John Melcher, David Martinez-Martin, Miriam Jaafar, Julio Gomez-Herrero, Arvind Raman
High-Resolution Dynamic Atomic Force Microscopy In Liquids With Different Feedback Architectures, John Melcher, David Martinez-Martin, Miriam Jaafar, Julio Gomez-Herrero, Arvind Raman
Birck and NCN Publications
The recent achievement of atomic resolution with dynamic atomic force microscopy (dAFM) [Fukuma et al., Appl. Phys. Lett. 2005, 87, 034101], where quality factors of the oscillating probe are inherently low, challenges some accepted beliefs concerning sensitivity and resolution in dAFM imaging modes. Through analysis and experiment we study the performance metrics for high-resolution imaging with dAFM in liquid media with amplitude modulation (AM), frequency modulation (FM) and drive-amplitude modulation (DAM) imaging modes. We find that while the quality factors of dAFM probes may deviate by several orders of magnitude between vacuum and liquid media, their sensitivity to tip-sample forces …