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Non-contact atomic force microscopy (nc-AFM), also known as dynamic force microscopy (DFM), is a mode of atomic force microscopy, which itself is a type of scanning probe microscopy. In nc-AFM a sharp probe is moved close (order of Angstroms ) to the surface under study, the probe is then raster scanned across the surface, the image is then ...
Non-contact mode AFM does not suffer from tip or sample degradation effects that are sometimes observed after taking numerous scans with contact AFM. This makes non-contact AFM preferable to contact AFM for measuring soft samples, e.g. biological samples and organic thin film. In the case of rigid samples, contact and non-contact images may ...
The instrumentation involved for pc-AFM is very similar to that necessary for traditional AFM or the modified conductive AFM. The main difference between pc-AFM and other types of AFM instruments is the illumination source that is focused through the inverted microscope objective and the neutral density filter that is positioned adjacent to the illumination source.
SKP has been used to investigate the surface potential of materials used in solar cells, with the advantage that it is a non-contact, and therefore a non-destructive technique. [28] It can be used to determine the electron affinity of different materials in turn allowing the energy level overlap of conduction bands of differing materials to be ...
In this mode the cantilever is oscillated at a resonant frequency of the cantilever and the AFM tip is held such that it only senses with long range electrostatic forces without entering the repulsive contact regime. In this non-contact regime, the electric force gradient causes a shift in the resonance frequency of the cantilever.
This type of AFM operation is referred to as the force mode. With this probe, one can study interactions between various surfaces and probe particles in the sphere-plane geometry . It is also possible to study forces between colloidal particles by attaching another particle to the substrate and perform the measurement in the sphere-sphere ...
Constant force feedback mode is similar to the feedback mechanism used in atomic force microscopy (AFM). Experiments can be performed in contact, intermittent contact, and non-contact modes. In shear force feedback mode, a tuning fork is mounted alongside the tip and made to oscillate at its resonance frequency.
Pointprobe® [7] [8] AFM Probes for Non-Contact, Contact and Force Modulation Mode have become the standard silicon etched probes in many research laboratories. Arrow AFM Probes [9] for Non-Contact, Contact and Force Modulation Mode and feature a unique tip shape with visibility of the tip from the top. This allows precise positioning of the ...