Tapping-mode atomic force microscopy (AFM), in which the vibrating tip periodically
approaches, interacts and retracts from the sample surface, is the most common AFM …

High spatial resolution imaging of material properties is an important task for the continued
development of nanomaterials and studies of biological systems. Time-varying interaction …

Abstract Knowledge of surface forces is the key to understanding a large number of
processes in fields ranging from physics to material science and biology. The most common …

Transient forces between nanoscale objects on surfaces govern friction, viscous flow, and
plastic deformation, occur during manipulation of matter, or mediate the local wetting …

The past two decades have seen atomic force microscopy (AFM) evolve from an
experimental technique to probe simple surface topography to one that can spatially map …

Quantifying the tip–sample interaction forces in amplitude-modulated atomic force
microscopy (AM-AFM) has been an elusive yet important goal in nanoscale imaging …

The atomic force microscope (AFM) system has evolved into a useful tool for direct
measurements of micro-structural parameters and unraveling the intermolecular forces at …

We introduce a novel probe structure for the atomic force microscope. The probe has a
sharp tip placed on a micromachined membrane with an integrated displacement sensor, a …

Fast, high-resolution mapping of heterogeneous interfaces with a wide elastic modulus
range is a major goal of atomic force microscopy (AFM). This goal becomes more …

Dynamic atomic force microscopy, in essence, consists of a vibrating microcantilever with a
nanoscale tip that interacts with a sample surface via short-and long-range intermolecular …