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Tapping mode atomic force microscope combined with reflection scanning near-field optical microscope (AF/RSNOM)

✍ Scribed by Yinli Li; Shifa Wu; Pengfei Li; Jian Zhang; Shi Pan


Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2006
Tongue
English
Weight
204 KB
Volume
258
Category
Article
ISSN
0030-4018

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✦ Synopsis


A new kind of scanning probe microscope is introduced in this paper, which is a combination of atomic force microscope and reflection scanning near field optical microscopy (AF/RSNOM) with equi-amplitude tapping mode. The principle and recent experiment result of AF/RSNOM are reported. Besides convenient operation, the bi-functional probe tip of AF/RSNOM brings an even illumination for every sampling position. Experiment result and analysis show that the signal to noise ratio (SNR) of AF/RSNOM optical image is much better than that of other RSNOM without tapping working mode.