Force measurements with the atomic force microscope: Technique, interpretation and applications

HJ Butt, B Cappella, M Kappl - Surface science reports, 2005 - Elsevier
The atomic force microscope (AFM) is not only a tool to image the topography of solid
surfaces at high resolution. It can also be used to measure force-versus-distance curves …

Cantilever-like micromechanical sensors

A Boisen, S Dohn, SS Keller, S Schmid… - Reports on Progress in …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
The field of cantilever-based sensing emerged in the mid-1990s and is today a well-known
technology for label-free sensing which holds promise as a technique for cheap, portable …

AFM–IR: combining atomic force microscopy and infrared spectroscopy for nanoscale chemical characterization

A Dazzi, CB Prater, Q Hu, DB Chase… - Applied …, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
Polymer and life science applications of a technique that combines atomic force microscopy
(AFM) and infrared (IR) spectroscopy to obtain nanoscale IR spectra and images are …

Theory of infrared nanospectroscopy by photothermal induced resonance

A Dazzi, F Glotin, R Carminati - Journal of Applied Physics, 2010 - pubs.aip.org
We present a theoretical investigation of the physics involved in a recently developed
spectromicroscopy technique, called photothermal induced resonance (PTIR). With this …

Direct measurement of the forces between complementary strands of DNA

GU Lee, LA Chrisey, RJ Colton - Science, 1994 - science.org
Interaction forces between single strands of DNA were measured with the atomic force
microscope by a procedure in which DNA oligonucleotides were covalently attached to a …

Measuring small longitudinal phase shifts: weak measurements or standard interferometry?

N Brunner, C Simon - Physical review letters, 2010 - APS
Recently, weak measurements were used to measure small effects that are transverse to the
propagation direction of a light beam. Here we address the question of whether weak …

Development of low noise cantilever deflection sensor for multienvironment frequency-modulation atomic force microscopy

T Fukuma, M Kimura, K Kobayashi… - Review of Scientific …, 2005 - pubs.aip.org
We have developed a low noise cantilever deflection sensor with a deflection noise density
of 17 fm∕ Hz by optimizing the parameters used in optical beam deflection (OBD) method …

Cantilever-based biosensors

C Ziegler - Analytical and bioanalytical chemistry, 2004 - Springer
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Optimizing the signal-to-noise ratio of a beam-deflection measurement with interferometric weak values

DJ Starling, PB Dixon, AN Jordan, JC Howell - Physical Review A—Atomic …, 2009 - APS
The amplification obtained using weak values is quantified through a detailed investigation
of the signal-to-noise ratio for an optical beam-deflection measurement. We show that for a …

Ultrasensitive measurement of microcantilever displacement below the shot-noise limit

RC Pooser, B Lawrie - Optica, 2015 - opg.optica.org
The displacement of micro-electro-mechanical-systems (MEMS) cantilevers is used to
measure a broad variety of phenomena in devices ranging from force microscopes to …