Tomographic imaging and scanning thermal microscopy: thermal impedance tomography

Micro-thermal analysis: scanning thermal microscopy and localised thermal analysis.

Micro-thermal analysis combines the imaging capabilities of atomic force microscopy with the ability to characterise, with high spatial resolution, the thermal behaviour of materials. The conventional AFM tip is replaced by a miniature heater/thermometer which enables a surface to be visualised according to its response to the input of heat (in addition to measuring its topography). Areas of in...

Scanning impedance microscopy (SIM): A novel approach for AC transport imaging

Scanning Impedance Microscopy (SIM) is one of the novel scanning probe microscopy (SPM) techniques, which has been developed to taking image from sample surface, providing quantitative information with high lateral resolution on the interface capacitance, and investigating the local capacitance–voltage (C–V) behavior of the interface and AC transport properties. The SIM is an ordinary AFM equip...

Micro-Nano Scale Thermal Imaging Using Scanning Probe Microscopy

Scanning impedance microscopy (SIM): A novel approach for AC transport imaging

Scanning Impedance Microscopy (SIM) is one of the novel scanning probe microscopy (SPM) techniques, which has been developed to taking image from sample surface, providing quantitative information with high lateral resolution on the interface capacitance, and investigating the local capacitance–voltage (C–V) behavior of the interface and AC transport properties. The SIM is an ordinary AFM equip...

Imaging of Thermal Conductivity with Sub-Micrometer Resolution Using Scanning Thermal Microscopy

2 Department of Engineering Mechanics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, People’s Republic of China. 3 To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: [email protected] With the development of new emerging technologies, many objects in scientific research and engineering are of sub-micrometer and nanometer size, such as microelectronics, micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS), bio...