Preface |
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Author |
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Acknowledgments |
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1 Introduction to Atomic Force Microscopy |
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1.1 Scanning Probe Microscope Overview |
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1.3.2 Feedback Electronics |
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1.3.3 Laser Beam Detection |
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1.6.3 Dip Pen Nanolithography (DPN) |
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2.6 Laboratory Exercise: Force Curve Analysis of Metallized Polymer Patterns |
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2.6.1 Laboratory Objectives |
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2.6.2 Materials and Procedures |
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2.6.3 Sample Data and Results |
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3.1 Analog and Digital Electronics |
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3.2.2.1 Scanner Materials |
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3.2.2.2 Piezotube Geometry |
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3.2.2.3 Scanner Nonlinearities |
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3.3.1 Proportional and Integral Gains |
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4 AFM Cantilevers and Probes |
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4.1 Probe Characteristics |
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4.3 Cantilever Characteristics |
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4.4 Mechanical Properties of Cantilevers |
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4.4.2 Resonance Frequency |
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5.1 Contact Mode Characteristics |
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5.1.1 Contact Mode Applications |
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5.2 Probe Behavior in Contact Mode |
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5.3 Feedback Loop Operation in Contact Mode |
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5.3.3 Feedback Loop Signals |
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5.4.3 Additional Roughness Parameters |
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5.5 Laboratory Exercise: Surface Roughness Analysis of Metallized Polymer Patterns |
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5.5.1 Laboratory Objectives |
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5.5.2 Materials and Procedures |
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6 Lateral Force Microscopy |
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6.2 Lateral Force Microscope Probe Behavior |
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6.3 Lateral Force Microscopy Data |
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6.3.1 Photodiode Response in Lateral Force Microscopy |
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6.4 Laboratory Exercise: Analysis of Nanoshaved Patterns Etched in Polymer Films |
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6.4.1 Laboratory Objectives |
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6.4.2 Materials and Procedures |
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6.4.3 Sample Data and Results |
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7 Conductive Atomic Force Microscopy |
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7.3 CAFM Probe Characteristics |
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7.4 Nanoscale Impedance Microscopy |
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7.4.1 Nanoscale Impedance Microscopy Data |
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7.5 Laboratory Exercise: CAFM Analysis of Silver Nanowires |
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7.5.1 Laboratory Objectives |
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7.5.2 Materials and Procedures |
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8 Oscillating Modes of AFM |
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8.1.1 Tapping Mode Operation |
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8.1.2 Mechanical Properties of Tapping Mode Tips |
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8.1.3 Tapping Mode Forces |
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8.1.4 Tapping Mode Parameters |
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8.1.6 Feedback Loop Operation in Oscillating Modes |
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8.2.1 Non-Contact Mode Forces |
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8.4 Laboratory Exercise: Phase Imaging of Metal/Polymer Nanostructures |
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8.4.1 Laboratory Objectives |
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8.4.2 Materials and Procedures |
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8.4.3 Sample Data and Results |
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9.4.1 External Vibrations |
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9.4.2 Fast Fourier Transform |
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Index |
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