2011
DOI: 10.1063/1.3601872
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Comparison of photothermal and piezoacoustic excitation methods for frequency and phase modulation atomic force microscopy in liquid environments

Abstract: In attempting to perform frequency modulation atomic force microscopy (FM-AFM) in liquids, a non-flat phase transfer function in the self-excitation system prevents proper tracking of the cantilever natural frequency. This results in frequency-and-phase modulation atomic force microscopy (FPM-AFM) which lies in between phase modulation atomic force microscopy (PM-AFM) and FM-AFM. We derive the theory necessary to recover the conservative force and damping in such a situation, where standard FM-AFM theory no lo… Show more

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“…In some experimental conditions the second mode is not observed (A 2 = 0) as it is either too damped or falls outside the frequency range of the lock-in used for this experiment. Moreover, the presence of multiple peaks in the cantilever frequency response, resulting from the coupling between the acoustic excitation of the piezo and spurious mechanical modes [23,24], may sometime make it difficult to isolate the real resonance peak. In these cases, equation (1) was fitted by starting from the estimates given by the thermal noise spectrum and then 'enveloping' all the forest of peaks measured in AM mode under one single SHO peak.…”
Section: Dynamics Of Acoustically Excited Microcantilevers Immersed Imentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In some experimental conditions the second mode is not observed (A 2 = 0) as it is either too damped or falls outside the frequency range of the lock-in used for this experiment. Moreover, the presence of multiple peaks in the cantilever frequency response, resulting from the coupling between the acoustic excitation of the piezo and spurious mechanical modes [23,24], may sometime make it difficult to isolate the real resonance peak. In these cases, equation (1) was fitted by starting from the estimates given by the thermal noise spectrum and then 'enveloping' all the forest of peaks measured in AM mode under one single SHO peak.…”
Section: Dynamics Of Acoustically Excited Microcantilevers Immersed Imentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The actuation of cantilevers in low Q environments can result in ≫ due to resonance coupling and a non-ideal actuator transfer function [35][36][37][38]. Under these conditions, the measured frequency shift, Δ , required to compensate Δ is reduced by ⁄ (see Ref [39] for an illustration):…”
Section: Phase Transfer Noisementioning
confidence: 99%
“…11 These problems can largely be overcome using electrostatic excitation. In contrast to piezoacoustic actuation, electrostatic excitation only applies force to the AFM cantilever.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…10 Even in cases where the cantilever resonance is not completely obscured, the resonance peak is often distorted, which can affect the accuracy of certain AFM techniques such as frequency modulation and phase modulation imaging. [11][12][13] Further, the spurious resonances can a) Author to whom correspondence should be addressed. Electronic mail:…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%