Precise actuation is a widely utilized technology in the realm of high-end equipment.
Piezoelectric actuators (PEAs) stand out due to their exceptional attributes, including high …

Lignocellulosic biomass is today considered a promising renewable resource for bioenergy
production. A combined chemical and biological process is currently under consideration for …

The scanner drift of the atomic force microscope (AFM) is a great disadvantage to the
application of digital image correlation to micro/nano-scale deformation measurements. This …

The continuous miniaturization of microelectronic devices and interconnections demand
more and more experimental strain/stress analysis of micro-and nanoscale components for …

The characterization of nanomaterials and nanostructures on the nanoscale has been a
tremendous challenge for many existing testing and measurement techniques. With the …

Abstract Atomic Force Microscopes (AFMs) are widely used for the investigation of samples
at the nanometer scale. The metrological AFM used in this work uses a 3 degrees‐of …

The modeling of the piezoelectric actuator is very important for the fast and accurate nano-
positioning control. However, the complex creep, vibration and hysteresis dynamics make …

Since its inception, scanning probe microscopy (SPM) has established itself as the tool of
choice for probing surfaces and functionalities at the nanoscale. Although recent …

It is essential to characterize the nonlinearity in scanning probe microscopes (SPMs) in
order to acquire spatial measurements with high levels of accuracy. In this paper, a new …

An enhancing Coleman–Hodgdon model is introduced to describe the hysteresis curves of
the bimorph deformable mirror (DM). Hysteresis curves are measured from a bimorph DM …