Control techniques for increasing the scan speed and minimizing image artifacts in tap**-mode atomic force microscopy: Toward video-rate nanoscale imaging

MW Fairbairn, SOR Moheimani - IEEE Control Systems …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The atomic force microscope (AFM)[1] is a mechanical microscope capable of producing
three-dimensional images of a wide variety of sample surfaces with nanometer precision in …

[HTML][HTML] Nanocharacterization of soft biological samples in shear mode with quartz tuning fork probes

J Otero, L Gonzalez, M Puig-Vidal - Sensors, 2012 - mdpi.com
Quartz tuning forks are extremely good resonators and their use is growing in scanning
probe microscopy. Nevertheless, only a few studies on soft biological samples have been …

A switched gain resonant controller to minimize image artifacts in intermittent contact mode atomic force microscopy

MW Fairbairn, SOR Moheimani - IEEE transactions on …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As the scan speed of the atomic force microscope (AFM) operating in intermittent contact
mode is increased, the likelihood of artifacts appearing in the image is increased due to the …

High-speed atomic force microscopy

T Uchihashi, N Kodera, T Ando - Noncontact Atomic Force Microscopy …, 2015 - Springer
High-speed atomic force microscopy (HS-AFM) has now been established that can capture
protein molecules in action at submolecular spatial and sub-100 ms temporal resolution …

Minimizing probe loss in tap** mode atomic force microscopy using a switched gain resonant controller

MW Fairbairn, SOR Moheimani - 2012 2nd Australian Control …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
When imaging samples containing large steep drops in topography at high speed, with an
Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) operating in tap** mode, it is common for the sensing …

Nanocharacterization of Soft Biological Samples in Shear Mode with Quartz Tuning Fork Probes

J Otero Díaz, L Gonzalez Claramonte… - Sensors, 2012, vol. 12 …, 2012 - diposit.ub.edu
Quartz tuning forks are extremely good resonators and their use is growing in scanning
probe microscopy. Nevertheless, only a few studies on soft biological samples have been …