“May the Force Be with You!” force–volume mapping with atomic force microscopy

OH Olubowale, S Biswas, G Azom, BL Prather… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Information of the chemical, mechanical, and electrical properties of materials can be
obtained using force volume mapping (FVM), a measurement mode of scanning probe …

[HTML][HTML] Investigation of red blood cells by atomic force microscopy

V Sergunova, S Leesment, A Kozlov, V Inozemtsev… - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
Currently, much research is devoted to the study of biological objects using atomic force
microscopy (AFM). This method's resolution is superior to the other non-scanning …

An atomic force microscopy mode for nondestructive electromechanical studies and its application to diphenylalanine peptide nanotubes

A Kalinin, V Atepalikhin, O Pakhomov, AL Kholkin… - Ultramicroscopy, 2018 - Elsevier
Nondestructive scanning probe microscopy of fragile nanoscale objects is currently in
increasing need. In this paper, we report a novel atomic force microscopy mode, HybriD …

Study of the quasi–Periodic one dimensional domain structure near TC of TGS crystal by PFM and hybrid PFM methods

AL Tolstikhina, RV Gainutdinov, NV Belugina… - Physica B: Condensed …, 2018 - Elsevier
The phase transition of ferroelectric triglycine sulfate crystal (TGS) was studied in situ with
the method of the piezoresponse force microscopy in the contact and hybrid modes. The …

Near-fild optical lithography in application to plasmonic antennas characterization

AV Shelaev, PS Dorozhkin, VA Bykov - Instruments and Experimental …, 2016 - Springer
Proposed a method of measurements for both electrical field enhancement and size of near-
field localization area for plasmonic antenna-probe. The method is based on optical …

Electrodynamically levitated actuator

S Towfighian, M Pallay, M Daeichin… - US Patent 12,091,313, 2024 - Google Patents
A microelectromechanical actuator, comprising: a substrate, having a surface; a conductive
beam suspended parallel to the substrate, displaceable along an axis normal to the surface …

Automated surface preparation system

NG Amell, JB Arthur, TW Fuller - US Patent App. 17/309,633, 2022 - Google Patents
BACKGROUND [0002] Automotive industry needs to prepare surfaces of car parts or
replacement parts (eg, a bumper) for various purposes (eg, painting). Typical surface …

Low drift system for a metrology instrument

A Neushul, A Ruiter - US Patent 10,900,997, 2021 - Google Patents
The present inventors have recognized that more accurate measurements can be taken with
less drift due to thermal expansion by precisely controlling insulated heating and cooling …

Noise removal method of material test and material testing machine

T Matsuura - US Patent 10,871,408, 2020 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A breakage point is detected as a change point from raw data and the data
is divided before and after the breakage point to obtain divided data D1 and D2. When the …

СКАНИРУЮЩАЯ ПРЫЖКОВАЯ МИКРОСКОПИЯ ДЛЯ ИССЛЕДОВАНИЯ ЭЛЕКТРОМЕХАНИЧЕСКИХ СВОЙСТВ МЯГКИХ ОБЪЕКТОВ

ВВ Атепалихин, АС Калинин, СИ Леесмент… - … академии наук. Серия …, 2017 - elibrary.ru
Описаны реализация и апробация нового метода для неразрушающего измерения
пьезоотклика мягких, хрупких и плохозакрепленных нанообъектов с одновременной …