scholarly journals Измерения контактной жесткости в атомно-силовом микроскопе

2020 ◽  
Vol 90 (11) ◽  
pp. 1951
Author(s):  
А.В. Анкудинов ◽  
М.М. Халисов

A method is proposed for increasing the accuracy of nanomechanical measurements in an atomic force microscope. To describe the contact interaction of the cantilever with the sample, an analytical model was used that takes into account the following factors: the cantilever probe sticks to the sample surface or slides along it, the geometric and mechanical characteristics of the sample and cantilever, and their relative position. Under the assumption of sliding, a filter was developed to correct the signals of contact stiffness and deformation measured on a sample with a developed relief. The use of the filter is illustrated in images obtained in an atomic force microscope with an imaging mode based on point-by-point registration of the force quasistatic interaction of the cantilever probe with the sample.

2010 ◽  
Vol 88 (5) ◽  
pp. 333-348 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Sadeghi ◽  
Hassan Zohoor

The nonlinear flexural vibration for a rectangular atomic force microscope cantilever is investigated by using Timoshenko beam theory. In this paper, the normal and tangential tip–sample interaction forces are found from a Hertzian contact model and the effects of the contact position, normal and lateral contact stiffness, tip height, thickness of the beam, and the angle between the cantilever and the sample surface on the nonlinear frequency to linear frequency ratio are studied. The differential quadrature method is employed to solve the nonlinear differential equations of motion. The results show that softening behavior is seen for most cases and by increasing the normal contact stiffness, the frequency ratio increases for the first mode, but for the second mode, the situation is reversed. The nonlinear-frequency to linear-frequency ratio increases by increasing the Timoshenko beam parameter, but decreases by increasing the contact position for constant amplitude for the first and second modes. For the first mode, the frequency ratio decreases by increasing both of the lateral contact stiffness and the tip height, but increases by increasing the angle α between the cantilever and sample surface.


Author(s):  
A Sadeghi ◽  
H Zohoor

The non-linear flexural vibration for a double-tapered atomic force microscope cantilever has been investigated by using the Timoshenko beam theory. In this article, the normal and tangential tip—sample interaction forces are found from the Hertzian contact model, and the effects of the contact position, normal and lateral contact stiffness, height of the tip, thickness of the beam, angle between the cantilever and the sample surface, and breadth and height taper ratios on the non-linear frequency to linear frequency ratio have been studied. The differential quadrature method is employed to solve the non-linear differential equations of motion. The results show that the softening behaviour is seen for all cases. The non-linear frequency to linear frequency ratio increases by increasing the Timoshenko beam parameter and breadth and height taper ratios, but decreases by increasing the contact position for the first and second modes. For the first vibrational mode, the non-linear frequency to linear frequency ratio increases by increasing the height of the tip and the angle α between the cantilever and sample surface. By increasing the normal contact stiffness, the frequency ratio increases for the first mode.


2011 ◽  
Vol 110-116 ◽  
pp. 4888-4892
Author(s):  
Ali Sadeghi

The resonant frequency of flexural vibrations for an atomic force microscope (AFM) cantilever has been investigated using the Euler-Bernoulli beam theory. The results show that for flexural vibration the frequency is sensitive to the contact position, the first frequency is sensitive only to the lower contact stiffness, but high order modes are sensitive in a larger range of contact stiffness. By increasing the height H, for a limited range of contact stiffness the sensitivity to the contact stiffness increases. This sensitivity controls the image contrast, or image quality. Furthermore, by increasing the angle between the cantilever and sample surface, the frequency decreases.


1999 ◽  
Vol 5 (S2) ◽  
pp. 962-963
Author(s):  
M. VanLandingham ◽  
X. Gu ◽  
D. Raghavan ◽  
T. Nguyen

Recent advances have been made on two fronts regarding the capability of the atomic force microscope (AFM) to characterize the mechanical response of polymers. Phase imaging with the AFM has emerged as a powerful technique, providing contrast enhancement of topographic features in some cases and, in other cases, revealing heterogeneities in the polymer microstructure that are not apparent from the topographic image. The enhanced contrast provided by phase images often allows for identification of different material constituents. However, while the phase changes of the oscillating probe are associated with energy dissipation between the probe tip and the sample surface, the relationship between this energy dissipation and the sample properties is not well understood.As the popularity of phase imaging has grown, the capability of the AFM to measure nanoscale indentation response of polymers has also been explored. Both techniques are ideal for the evaluation of multi-phase and multi-component polymer systems.


Scanning ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Yan Sun ◽  
Jing Liu ◽  
Kejian Wang ◽  
Zheng Wei

During the operation of tapping mode atomic force microscope (TM-AFM), the gap between the cantilever and sample surface is very small (several nanometers to micrometers). Owing to the small gap distance and high vibration frequency, squeeze film force should be considered in TM-AFM. To explore the mechanism of squeeze film damping in TM-AFM, three theoretical microcantilever simplified models are discussed innovatively herein: tip probe, ball probe, and tipless probe. Experiments and simulations are performed to validate the theoretical models. It is of great significance to improve the image quality of atomic force microscope.


1992 ◽  
Vol 295 ◽  
Author(s):  
Satomi Ohnishi ◽  
Masahiko Hara ◽  
Taiji Furuno ◽  
Wolfgang Knoll ◽  
Hiroyuki Sasabe

AbstractA water-soluble protein, ferritin, on a silicon surface has been imaged in pure water at room temperature with the atomic force microscope (AFM). The samples were prepared by binding ferritin molecules electrostatically to a charged polypeptide layer of poly-l-benzyl-L-histidine (PBLH). The hexagonal arrangement of ferritin molecules was imaged with high reproducibility, since the force between tip and the sample surface could be kept sufficiently lower than 10-10 N. The applied force can be stabilized and weakened mainly due to a “self-screening effect” of the surface charges of the ferritin-PBLH layer. We demonstrate that the electrostatic-binding sample preparation is one of the suitable methods for soft biological specimens to achieve the nondestructive. low-force AFM imagings.


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