Concentrated-mass cantilever enhances multiple harmonics in tapping-mode atomic force microscopy
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عنوان ژورنال: Applied Physics Letters
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0003-6951,1077-3118
DOI: 10.1063/1.2909535