“…The AM-AFM, in fact, exhibits various nonlinear phenomena including bistability [22,21], bifurcation [23,24], chaotic oscillations [25,26], which nonlinear scientists have focused on for half a century [27]. Actually, the existing techniques for analysis of nonlinear systems have been applied to some problems in the nonlinear cantilever dynamics [17,18,19,20,21,25,26,28,29,30] such as the application of Melnikov method [31,32]. It should be emphasized that the cantilever dynamics is directly connected to the resolution of images [26] and scanning rate of the AM-AFM [33].…”