Fabrication of periodic nanostructures using dynamic plowing lithography with the tip of an atomic force microscope

Reversible mechano-electrochemical writing of metallic nanostructures with the tip of an atomic force microscope

We recently introduced a method that allows the controlled deposition of nanoscale metallic patterns at defined locations using the tip of an atomic force microscope (AFM) as a "mechano-electrochemical pen", locally activating a passivated substrate surface for site-selective electrochemical deposition. Here, we demonstrate the reversibility of this process and study the long-term stability of ...

Fabrication of Nanoscale Pits with High Throughput on Polymer Thin Film Using AFM Tip-Based Dynamic Plowing Lithography

We show that an atomic force microscope (AFM) tip-based dynamic plowing lithography (DPL) approach can be used to fabricate nanoscale pits with high throughput. The method relies on scratching with a relatively large speed over a sample surface in tapping mode, which is responsible for the separation distance of adjacent pits. Scratching tests are carried out on a poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMM...

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...

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...

Scanning Motions of an Atomic Force Microscope Tip in Water