Force Modulation Nanometer Recording Using an Atomic Force Microscope Tip.

Tip-Jump Response of an Amplitude-Modulated Atomic Force Microscope

The dynamic behaviors of an Atomic Force Microscope are of interest, and variously unpredictable phenomena are experimentally measured. In practical measurements, researchers have proposed many methods for avoiding these uncertainties. However, causes of these phenomena are still hard to demonstrate in simulation. To demonstrate these phenomena, this paper claims the tip-jump motion is a predic...

Reconstitution of phospholipid bilayer by an atomic force microscope tip.

Nuno C. Santos,* Evgeny Ter-Ovanesyan, Joseph A. Zasadzinski, and Miguel A. R. B. Castanho* Centro de Quı́mica-Fı́sica Molecular, Complexo I, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa, Portugal; Departamento de Quı́mica e Bioquı́mica, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal; and Department of Chemical and Nuclear Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93...

Scanning Motions of an Atomic Force Microscope Tip in Water

Nanometer-scale flow of molten polyethylene from a heated atomic force microscope tip.

We investigate the nanometer-scale flow of molten polyethylene from a heated atomic force microscope (AFM) cantilever tip during thermal dip-pen nanolithography (tDPN). Polymer nanostructures were written for cantilever tip temperatures and substrate temperatures controlled over the range 100-260 °C and while the tip was either moving with speed 0.5-2.0 µm s(-1) or stationary and heated for 0.1...

A Large Range Metrological Atomic Force Microscope with Nanometer Uncertainty

A metrological atomic force microscope (AFM) with 50mm×50mm×2mm scan range has been designed and constructed. In this paper, the structure and preliminary results are introduced. The precise movement of the sample is driven by a piezoelectric motion stage and airbearing stage for different scanning range. Four multi-pass homodyne interferometers attached to the metrological frame measure the re...