High-speed atomic force microscopy for materials science

OD Payton, L Picco, TB Scott - International Materials Reviews, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Since its inception in 1986, the field of atomic force microscopy (AFM) has enabled surface
analysis and characterisation with unparalleled resolution in a wide variety of environments …

Invited review article: combining scanning probe microscopy with optical spectroscopy for applications in biology and materials science

M Lucas, E Riedo - Review of Scientific Instruments, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
This is a comprehensive review of the combination of scanning probe microscopy (SPM)
with various optical spectroscopies, with a particular focus on Raman spectroscopy. Efforts …

Observation of a Strongly Isospin-Mixed Doublet in via -Delayed Two-Proton Decay of

JJ Liu, XX Xu, LJ Sun, CX Yuan, K Kaneko, Y Sun… - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
β decay of proton-rich nuclei plays an important role in exploring isospin mixing. The β
decay of P 26 at the proton drip line is studied using double-sided silicon strip detectors …

[HTML][HTML] Bistability, higher harmonics, and chaos in AFM

RW Stark - Materials today, 2010 - Elsevier
A dynamic atomic force microscope sensitively probes surface properties with
subnanometre lateral resolution. In the amplitude modulation mode, the force-sensing tip …

Peak forces in high-resolution imaging of soft matter in liquid

HV Guzman, AP Perrino, R Garcia - ACS nano, 2013 - ACS Publications
The maximum force exerted by the tip of a force microscope on the sample surface is a
critical factor that determines the spatial resolution and the degree of invasiveness of the …

Designing nonlinear observer for topography estimation in trolling mode atomic force microscopy

M Sajjadi, M Chahari, HN Pishkenari… - Journal of Vibration …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
In this study, a nonlinear observer for high-speed estimation of the sample surface
topography in a small duration of the probe transient motion utilizing a 2DOF model of TR …

-decay spectroscopy of

LJ Sun, XX Xu, CJ Lin, J Lee, SQ Hou, CX Yuan, ZH Li… - Physical Review C, 2019 - APS
Background: β-decay spectroscopy provides valuable nuclear physics input for accurate
modeling of nova and x-ray burst observables and a stringent test for shell-model theories …

Dissipation and oscillatory solvation forces in confined liquids studied by small-amplitude atomic force spectroscopy

S De Beer, D Van den Ende, F Mugele - Nanotechnology, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
We determine conservative and dissipative tip–sample interaction forces from the amplitude
and phase response of acoustically driven atomic force microscope (AFM) cantilevers using …

Molecular and nanoscale compositional contrast of soft matter in liquid: interplay between elastic and dissipative interactions

AF Payam, JR Ramos, R Garcia - ACS nano, 2012 - ACS Publications
We demonstrate that the phase contrast observed with an amplitude modulation atomic
force microscope depends on two factors, the generation of higher harmonics components …

-decay study of the proton-rich nucleus

LJ Sun, XX Xu, DQ Fang, CJ Lin, JS Wang, ZH Li… - Physical Review C, 2017 - APS
The β decay of the drip-line nucleus Mg 20 gives important information on key astrophysical
resonances in Na 20, which are relevant to the onset of the rapid proton capture process. A …