Position sensors with nanometer resolution are a key component of many precision imaging
and fabrication machines. Since the sensor characteristics can define the linearity …

Recent interest in high-speed scanning probe microscopy for high-throughput applications
including video-rate atomic force microscopy and probe-based nanofabrication has sparked …

Phosphorene is a mono-elemental, two-dimensional (2D) substance with outstanding,
highly directional properties and a bandgap that depends on the number of layers of the …

Atomic force microscopy is an amazing technique that allies a versatile methodology (that
allows measurement of samples in liquid, vacuum or air) to imaging with unprecedented …

The Handbook of Surface and Nanometrology explains and challenges current concepts in
nanotechnology. It covers in great detail surface metrology and nanometrology and more …

High-speed atomic force microscopy (HS-AFM) is now materialized. It allows direct
visualization of dynamic structural changes and dynamic processes of functioning biological …

The development of a high-performance three-axis serial-kinematic nanopositioning stage is
presented. The stage is designed for high-bandwidth applications that include video-rate …

Control can enable high-bandwidth nanopositioning needed to increase the operating
speed of scanning probe microscopes (SPMs). High-speed SPMs can substantially impact …

Atomic force microscopy (AFM) is part of a range of emerging microscopic methods for
biologists which offer the magnification range of both the light and electron microscope, but …

This paper presents the design analysis fabrication and testing of a high-bandwidth piezo-
driven parallel kinematic nanopositioning XY stage. The monolithic stage design has two …