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

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

Energy dissipation and dynamic response of an amplitude-modulation atomic-force microscopy subjected to a tip-sample viscous force.

In a common environment of atomic force microscopy (AFM), a damping force occurs between a tip and a sample. The influence of damping on the dynamic response of a cantilever must be significant. Moreover, accurate theory is very helpful for the interpretation of a sample's topography and properties. In this study, the effects of damping and nonlinear interatomic tip-sample forces on the dynamic...

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 ...