Precise analysis of the full-field in-plane vibration of microelectromechanical system (MEMS)
transducers is crucial for assessing their device functionality and performance. As an …

The quartz tuning fork (QTF) is a piezoelectric transducer with a high quality factor that was
successfully employed in sensitive applications such as atomic force microscopy or Quartz …

Quartz Tuning Fork (QTF)-based Scanning Probe Microscopy (SPM) is an important field of
research. A suitable model for the QTF is important to obtain quantitative measurements with …

Quartz tuning forks have become popular in nanotechnology applications, especially as
sensors for scanning probe microscopy. The sensor's spring constant and the oscillation …

This paper introduces a nanopipette combined with a quartz tuning fork-atomic force
microscope system (nanopipette/QTF-AFM), and describes experimental and theoretical …

Spider silk is one of the hottest biomaterials researched currently, due to its excellent
mechanical properties. This work reports a novel humidity sensing platform based on a …

A novel probe for scanning thermal microscope using a micro-thermocouple probe placed
on a Quartz Tuning Fork (QTF) is presented. Instead of using an external deflection with a …

Scanning probe microscopy techniques are powerful tools for studying the nanoscale
surface properties of biofilms, such as their morphology and mechanical behavior. Typically …

The use of quartz tuning fork sensors as probes for scanning probe microscopy is growing in
popularity. Working in shear mode, some methods achieve a lateral resolution comparable …

We have introduced a simple but robust approach to realize stray-capacitance
compensation of a quartz tuning fork force gradient sensor by using a tied-prong of the same …