Towards nanoscale electrical measurements in liquid by advanced KPFM techniques: a review

L Collins, JI Kilpatrick, SV Kalinin… - Reports on Progress in …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Fundamental mechanisms of energy storage, corrosion, sensing, and multiple biological
functionalities are directly coupled to electrical processes and ionic dynamics at solid–liquid …

Towards local tracking of solvated metal ions at solid-liquid interfaces

W Trewby, M Tavakol, YM Jaques, K Voïtchovsky - Materials Today Physics, 2024 - Elsevier
The dynamics of individual solvated ions near solid surfaces is the driving force behind
numerous interfacial processes, from electrochemical reactions to charge storage, mineral …

Nanoscale imaging of mobile carriers and trapped charges in delta doped silicon p–n junctions

G Gramse, A Kölker, T Škereň, TJZ Stock, G Aeppli… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Integrated circuits and certain silicon-based quantum devices require the precise positioning
of dopant nanostructures, and hydrogen resist lithography can be used to fabricate such …

Relaxation oscillation patterns induced by amplitude-modulated excitation in the Duffing system

J Song, X Han, Y Zou, Y Jiang, Q Bi - Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 2022 - Elsevier
Relaxation oscillations are typical fast–slow behaviors in the excited Duffing system. The
present paper focuses on the effects of amplitude-modulated excitation on relaxation …

Multifrequency spectrum analysis using fully digital G Mode-Kelvin probe force microscopy

L Collins, A Belianinov, S Somnath… - …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Since its inception over two decades ago, Kelvin probe force microscopy (KPFM) has
become the standard technique for characterizing electrostatic, electrochemical and …

[HTML][HTML] Kelvin probe force microscopy in liquid using electrochemical force microscopy

L Collins, S Jesse, JI Kilpatrick, A Tselev… - Beilstein journal of …, 2015 - beilstein-journals.org
Conventional closed loop-Kelvin probe force microscopy (KPFM) has emerged as a
powerful technique for probing electric and transport phenomena at the solid–gas interface …

Nanoscale electric polarizability of ultrathin biolayers on insulating substrates by electrostatic force microscopy

A Dols-Perez, G Gramse, A Calò, G Gomila… - Nanoscale, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
We measured and quantified the local electric polarization properties of ultrathin (∼ 5 nm)
biolayers on mm-thick mica substrates. We achieved it by scanning a sharp conductive tip (< …

Practical aspects of Kelvin-probe force microscopy at solid/liquid interfaces in various liquid media

K Umeda, K Kobayashi, N Oyabu, Y Hirata… - Journal of Applied …, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
The distributions of surface charges or surface potentials on biological molecules and
electrodes are directly related to various biological functions and ionic adsorptions …

Mapping the capacitance of self-assembled monolayers at metal/electrolyte interfaces at the nanoscale by in-liquid scanning dielectric microscopy

R Millan-Solsona, M Checa, L Fumagalli, G Gomila - Nanoscale, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Organic self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) at metal/electrolyte interfaces have been
thoroughly investigated both from fundamental and applied points of view. A relevant figure …

Nanoscale probing of local dielectric changes at the interface between solids and aqueous saline solutions

W Trewby, K Voïtchovsky - Faraday Discussions, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The mobility of dissolved ions and charged molecules at interfaces underpins countless
processes in science and technology. Experimentally, this is typically measured from the …